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Kentucky’s governmental ethics provision ranked 7th best in the nation in “S.W.A.M.P.” index

Kentucky fared extremely well in an annual ranking of states’ ethics provisions and enforcement, garnering a seventh-place finish.  Kentucky’s ranking was based on legislative and executive branch ethics laws enacted by the Kentucky General Assembly. 


The Coalition for Integrity recently released States with Anti-Corruption Measures for Public Officials (S.W.A.M.P.) Index 2020.  According to the Coalition, “the S.W.A.M.P. Index, first published in 2018, is a comparative scorecard which rates the 50 States and District of Columbia based on the laws and regulations governing ethics and transparency in the executive and legislative branches.  The questions in the index relate to the scope and independence of ethics agencies, powers of those agencies, acceptance and disclosure of gifts by public officials, transparency of funding of independent expenditures, and client disclosure by legislators.”


The entire report may be found at http://coalitionforintegrity.org/swamp2020/ 


The report specific to Kentucky may be found at https://www.coalitionforintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Kentucky-FINAL-REPORT.pdf 

 

The public’s confidence in the integrity of government is bolstered by strong ethics codes for public officials. 

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