There’s no Transparency Into Financial Holdings of County Elected Officials
“The trust in government can actually be enhanced when there’s more access to information about the private interests of public officials so that it’s more readily apparent when there might be a conflict of interest at work at a time when a public decision is about to be made,” says Dr. John Pelissero, a senior scholar at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Pelissero, who’s also professor emeritus of political science at Loyola University Chicago where he served on the faculty for 35 years, says a lack of disclosure makes it difficult, if not impossible, to determine whether elected officials might have conflicts of interest on a public matter.
John Pelissero, senior scholar, government ethics, quoted by Colorado Springs Indy.