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    DHS Rule Could Chill Ethical Communications

    By Paul HarrisDecember 12, 2011
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    Alan Chvotkin, PSC Executive VP and Counsel

    Proposed changes to U.S. Homeland Security Department (DHS) ethics rules could chill communications with the public and organizations, the Professional Services Council (PSC) said in comments submitted last week.

    The proposed rule could hamper current efforts to foster greater communication with industry by characterizing as “outside employment” any speaking engagement or any material written for publications by federal employees, regardless of whether the communications relate to their jobs and regardless of whether the employees are compensated.

    PSC’s Executive VP and Counsel Alan Chvotkin said, “Such communication has never been characterized as ‘outside employment’. In our view, doing so will chill the important regular exchange of information between government officials and the public through organizations such as PSC.”

    “To avoid this unintended consequence, we urge the department to differentiate between the employee speaking or writing as a representative of the agency and the employee’s activities that generate outside income over and above their government salary,” Chvotkin said. “We believe the intent of the proposed rule is to cover instances when the employee is engaged in activities unrelated to their official position with the agency, particularly as a means of generating outside income for themselves.”

     

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