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Opinion Type
Advisory Opinion
Docket Number
2020-852
Requesting Party
Deanna Harris
Decision Date
12/4/2020
Law
La. R.S. 42:1121
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Advisory Opinion whereby the Code of Governmental Ethics would not prohibit a former employee of Louisiana Rehabilitation Services from being employed with Livingston Parish School Board since she was not an agency head and did not provide the same services while employed with LRS that she would perform for the school board.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> C). DEPARTMENT <br /> LO ,. DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> ,,, 4 LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> Oil P.O.BOX 4368 <br /> BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 <br /> o*A- o' (225)219-5600 <br /> 'P... <br /> FAX (225)381-7271 <br /> December 7, 2020 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.la.gov <br /> Ms. Deanna Harris <br /> 36545 Stanton Hall Avenue <br /> Denham Springs, LA 70706 <br /> Re: Ethics Board Docket No. 2020-852 <br /> Dear Ms. Harris: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its December 4, 2020 meeting, considered your request for an <br /> advisory opinion regarding whether the Code of Governmental Ethics would prohibit you from <br /> being employed by the Livingston Parish School Board as a pre-employment training specialist <br /> after you terminate you;employment with Louisiana Rehabilitation Services. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> You are currently employed as a district supervisor with Louisiana Rehabilitation Services <br /> (LRS). LRS and Livingston Parish School Board have a contract to provide pre-employment <br /> transition services (Pre-ETS) to students in the parish. You are one of four district supervisors <br /> within the Baton Rouge Regional Office that provides services in ten parishes, one of which is <br /> Livingston Parish. The school board advertised a position for a pre-employment transition <br /> specialist, for which you were interviewed by both LRS and the school board. The school board <br /> offered you the position. You state that you never provided Pre-ETS to students as a district <br /> supervisor or in your prior position with LRS as a rehabilitation counselor. <br /> ISSUES <br /> May you may be employed as a Pre-ETS specialist with the Livingston Parish School Board, <br /> when the school board has a contract with your prior employer, the Louisiana Rehabilitation <br /> Services. <br /> LAW <br /> La. R.S. 42:1121 provides, in pertinent part, the following post-employment restrictions: <br /> A.(1)No former agency head or elected official shall, for a period of two years following the <br /> termination of his public service as the head of such agency or as an elected public official <br /> serving in such agency, assist another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an <br /> appearance in connection with a transaction, involving that agency or render any service on a <br /> contractual basis to or for such agency. <br /> * * * <br /> B.(1) General rule for other public employees. No former public employee shall, for a period of <br /> two years following the termination of his public employment, assist another person, for <br /> compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />
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