Justice Dept. signs off on state's ambitious ethics-reform law

From Sunshine Review

August 7, 2008

[edit] Justice Dept. signs off on state's ambitious ethics-reform law

"The U.S. Department of Justice has given its OK for Mississippi to put into action the state's most sweeping government ethics and transparency reform in decades.

Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law in May a bill that gives the Mississippi Ethics Commission significantly more authority."

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