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4) Neither Ms. Campbell and Ms. Williams will enter or approve each other's time or leave. <br />5) Neither Ms. Campbell and Ms. Williams will be involved in any decision making regarding <br />the salary, transfer, promotion, reallocation, or discipline involving the other. <br />6) Both Ms. Campbell and Ms. Williams will refrain from participations in, reviewing or <br />approving any other job-related matters in which the other has a substantial economic <br />interest. <br />DENR understands if Ms. Campbell is promoted to be Ms. Williams agency head in order for Ms. <br />Williams to retain her employment she must have been employed by DENR for over a year at that <br />time. <br />LAW <br />La. R.S. 42:1112B (1): No public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the <br />governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member of his immediate family has <br />a substantial economic interest. Qualification plan to be developed in accordance with rules <br />adopted by the Board to remove a public servant from participating in transactions that would <br />otherwise present violations of Section 1112 of the Code. <br />La. R.S. 42:1112C allows a disqualification plan to be developed in accordance with rules adopted <br />by the Board to remove a public servant from participating in transactions that would otherwise <br />present violations of Section 1112 of the Code. <br />La. R.S. 42:1119: No member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in <br />his agency. <br />La. R.S. 42:1119C(2) provides that the provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the continued <br />employment of any public employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way affect <br />normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of public <br />employee's immediate family becomes the agency head of such public employee's agency, <br />provided that such public employee has been employed in the agency for a period of at least one <br />year prior to the member of the public employee's immediate family becoming the agency head. <br />La. R.S. 42:1102(2)(a) defines "agency" for public servants of political subdivisions to mean the <br />office, division, agency, commission, board, committee, or other organizational unit in which he <br />works. <br />La. R.S. 42:1102(3) defines "agency head" to mean the chief executive or administrative officer <br />of an agency. <br />La. R.S. 42:1102(13) defines "immediate family" to include a public servant's siblings. <br />ANALYSIS <br />As employees of OMF both Valerie Campbell and Kayla Williams. Are public employees and <br />public servants pursuant to La. R.S. 42:1102(18)(a) and (19). Neither is an agency head pursuant <br />to La. R.S. 42:1102(3) at this time. Therefore, La. R.S. 42:1119 does not apply. However, Ms. <br />Campbell is prohibited by La. R.S. 42:1112(B)(1) from participating in any transaction in which <br />her daughter Ms. Williams has a substantial economic interest. Therefore, the proposed <br />