Public ethics laws are designed to instill public confidence in the integrity of government and to prevent elected officials from using their offices to unlawfully benefit themselves or their relatives. When a public official...
Last October this outlet reported on a state Ethics Commission ruling, Advisory Opinion 17-035-E, which was issued in June 2017 in response to a question about a sheriff elsewhere in Mississippi employing a son-in-law. ...
The Forrest County Sheriff’s Department is no stranger to charges of corruption, and not just by those who have run afoul of the law or found themselves in the Department’s crosshairs. Earlier this year,...