
Joyce Anderson
81:37 - 82:15
"I make a motion that the Ethics Committee send a letter to the Human Resources Manager and let them know that the Ethics Committee has discussed and determined that the training for the— Sexual harassment training— Professional workplace and sexual harassment workplace policy is not within the purview of the Ethics Committee and that it does put a limit on the information that can be provided to legislators and legislative staff about ethics, which is very important."
“I make a motion that the Ethics Committee send a letter to the Human Resources Manager and let them know that the Ethics Committee has discussed and determined that the training for the— Sexual harassment training— Professional workplace and sexual harassment workplace policy is not within the purview of the Ethics Committee and that it does put a limit on the information that can be provided to legislators and legislative staff about ethics, which is very important.”
I make a motion that the Ethics Committee send a letter to the Human Resources Manager and let them know that the Ethics Committee has discussed and determined that the training for the— or what are we calling it? The— Sexual harassment training. —Professional workplace and sexual harassment workplace policy is not within the purview of the Ethics Committee and that it does put a limit on the information that can be provided to legislators and legislative staff about ethics, which is very important.
Alaska's overhauled Legislative Ethics Act took effect June 24 after Gov. Dunleavy declined to sign it, adding a hard statutory requirement that legislators document the legislative purpose behind any travel gifts they accept.

The Select Committee on Legislative Ethics disclosed Friday that a legislator and a legislative employee submitted only a travel itinerary for an Arctic Winter Games trip and declined to provide any further narrative of legislative purpose, exposing a gap that new state law now closes by making agenda submission a hard statutory requirement.

The Select Committee on Legislative Ethics voted unanimously Friday to direct staff to send a letter to the HR manager and Legislative Counsel seeking relief from conducting sexual harassment and civility training, arguing the assignment falls outside its statutory authority and crowds out substantive ethics instruction.
