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� STATE OF LOUISIANA .�" E L.U'' DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE ; � „''s,9`' LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS giu;l,. 1 • P.O.BOX 4368 BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 ,, (225)219-5600 FAX:(225)381-7271 1-800-842-6630 www.ethics.la.gov January 22,2018 Emmy O'Dwyer 108 Harding Street Jefferson,Louisiana 70121 Re: Louisiana Board of Ethics Docket No.2017-1292 Dear Ms. O'Dwyer, The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its January 19, 2018, meeting, considered your request for an advisory opinion as to whether the Code of Governmental Ethics (Code) would prohibit you from engaging in certain work activities outside of your duties as an Educational Program Con- sultant with the Early Childhood Division of the Louisiana Department of Education (LDE). Your duties as an Educational Program Consultant include the development of a Leadership Academy for childcare directors of publicly funded childcare centers, which will be piloted in New Orleans and then implemented statewide.You seek guidance on three possible scenarios. 1. FEE-BASED TRAININGS TO EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS AND DIRECTORS You have provided fee-based trainings to early childhood teachers and directors for primarily private schools that have early learning programs in the New Orleans area. You hold community based training or a program may request that you work exclusively with their faculty. Although these private schools do not accept public funding, they are all licensed by the Early Childhood Division of LDE. La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services are neither performed for nor com- pensated by any person or from any officer,director, agent, or employee of such person,if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person: (1) has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency; (2) con- ducts operations or activities which are regulated by the public employee's agency; (3) or has substantial economic interests which may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the public employee's official duty. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER