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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> OF LD, DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> 4cw o OU=9 LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> � -", P.O. BOX 4368 <br /> *�` * BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 <br /> •(oNrio¢�c� (225)219-5600 <br /> «o»•' <br /> FAX (225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.la.gov <br /> May 11, 2021 <br /> Audrey Veal Pugh <br /> 1220 Elysian Drive <br /> Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70810 <br /> Re: Ethics Board Docket No. 2021-152 <br /> Dear Ms Pugh: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics,at its May 7,2021 meeting,considered your request for an advisory <br /> opinion as to whether your provision of services through your business to public and private entities <br /> would be a violation of the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> You are currently a part-time employee of the Louisiana Department of Education ("LDE") as an <br /> Education Program Consultant 1 in the Office of Teaching and Learning.You are also the Executive <br /> Director of a business,Youth Character Camp LLC("YCC"),which would like to provide services <br /> offering youth summer camps.In offering these camps,YCC may contract with local school boards. <br /> YCC may also seek federal and state grants. <br /> Your position at YCC is compensated, and you would also like to have family members work for <br /> YCC for compensation. <br /> YCC is not regulated by LDE. <br /> LAWS <br /> La. R.S. 42:1102(16) defines "person" to mean an individual or legal entity other than a <br /> governmental entity, or an agency thereof. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1112B(3) states that no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the <br /> governmental entity in which,to his actual knowledge,any person of which he is an officer,director, <br /> trustee, partner, or employee has a substantial economic interest. <br /> La.R.S.42:1111C(1)(a)prohibits a public servant from receiving any thing of economic value for <br /> any service, the subject matter of which is devoted substantially to the responsibilities, programs, <br /> or operations of the agency of the public servant and in which the public servant has participated. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public <br /> servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent,shall receive any thing <br /> of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered,or to be rendered,to or for any person <br /> during his public service unless such services are:(d)Neither performed for nor compensated by any <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />