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Cincinnati City Hall hopes new ethics panel will shore up public trust after council arrests After three high-profile arrests involving City Council members accused of cutting crooked deals with local property developers, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley has appointed an ethics panel to reevaluate the cityâs official interactions with developers. The need for it is depressing, he said. and last updated 2021-01-27 20:54:13-05 CINCINNATI â After threehigh-profilearrests involving City Council members accused of cutting crooked deals with local property developers, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley has appointed an ethics panel to reevaluate the cityâs official interactions with developers. The need for the panel is depressing, Cranley said Wednesday. ....
1:01 Retired Hamilton County Judge Ann Marie Tracey will serve as chair. She says they plan to do a 360-degree review of the city s current development process. We re going to look at the hard copy guidelines that we find contained in the city charter; state law; state legislation; ethics laws; codes of conduct; we re going to look at best practices throughout the country, Tracey said. And in so doing, we hope to be able to formulate some recommendations to City Council and to the administration. Tracey is a former chair of the Ohio Ethics Commission. I can t imagine having a more qualified person to be the chairperson of this commission, Cranley said. I m very proud and honored that she s willing to serve and we re lucky that she is. ....