
Joyce Anderson
75:49 - 76:29
"I personally, based on my experience, don't feel that it is within the ethics purview to conduct these two types of training classes or for work professional workplace and then sexual harassment and so forth, because I agree with Kevin, that is not something that we do. That is not part of our statute."
“I personally, based on my experience, don't feel that it is within the ethics purview to conduct these two types of training classes or for work professional workplace and then sexual harassment and so forth, because I agree with Kevin, that is not something that we do. That is not part of our statute.”
I think as Representative Galvin has mentioned a couple times. And so I personally, based on my experience, don't feel that it is within the ethics purview to conduct these two types of training classes or for work professional workplace and then sexual harassment and so forth, because I agree with Kevin, that is not something that we do. That is not part of our statute. We do have a harassment section in our statute, which was mentioned in the legal opinion that was issued by the director at that time. And I'm trying to think of his name, but I know it's on the email or on the thing here.
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.
