{"id":278269,"date":"2026-04-21T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278269\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:52:07","slug":"council-must-avoid-even-the-appearance-of-impropriety-oroville-mercury-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278269\/","title":{"rendered":"Council must avoid even the appearance of impropriety \u2013 Oroville Mercury-Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I had the pleasure of taking the State of California\u2019s Ethics Training provided by the Office of the Attorney General and the Fair Political Practices Commission. This training is required by all employees, decision-making appointees, and elected officials in the state. Time and again, the training explicitly reminds trainees that ethics laws are\u00a0minimums\u00a0and that those of us in these sensitive positions are bound to do what is ethically proper, above and beyond the legal requirements. Failing to act to avoid a conflict or the appearance of one may invalidate the hard work done by the agency, commission, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>                            This article is only available to subscribers\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                            Offer valid for non-subscribers only\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, I had the pleasure of taking the State of California\u2019s Ethics Training provided by the Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1564,975,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-278269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}