NY Attorney General on the ball with Non-Profit overhaul and Public Integrity Officers

Public Policy Review

Area: PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
Process: People induced transparency





In the Square

ALBANY, NY - NY Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has two top notch ideas in process.

 Overhauling state’s Non-Profit Regulations by having those who are non-profit do the work.
 Designating “regional” Public Integrity Officers

A Yahoooo Rating is what I give these ideas.

Non-profit Committee
It is a needed “global, national, state, local, neighborhood-level” trend to get our fiscal state in our non-profit houses in order. It is an excellent opportunity for those who are concerned about the barrier issues and intrinsic issues clashing, to do something infrastructural.

For those like me, protagonist, it is paramount for social justice to be at the table to ensure that the “morphing process” includes: ongoing training, civility, ethics, moral will, transparency, best practices, customer care, accountability, maximizing government and donor funding as well as instituting principled-centered leadership that outlaw greed, cronyism, autocratic powerbrokers that trample the people’s civil-human-legal rights.

What’s genius and on-target with this idea is, it “can be” a from-the-jump accountability platform.

Recommendations
I would add NEW BLOOD around the table. They would include high school-2 year/technical-4 year and above individuals from the neighborhood-level without a specific “name tag” of affiliation to the non-profits represented, even though they may receive services from them.

The affiliation should be characterized by being a citizen, volunteer, head of household, parent, mother, father, grandparent, foster parent, guardian, disabled, entrepreneur, recent graduate, student loan carrier, retiree, reentry retiree, reentry war veteran, re-entry incarceration citizen – parolee, homeless, gang survivor, recovering drug addict and alcoholic, child-parent, neighborhood-level business owner, teacher, social worker, health clinician, ex-judge, legal representatives, techies, visionaries; in other words, the many designates that those around the table in the “non-profit” industry serve.

This should be an ongoing process that happens every-so-often per the group’s decision. At the outset, a self and peer audit for effectiveness for all involved should occur once per year. This could help with commitment of excellence for accountability.

Additionally, there should be a massive campaign to educate the people – systematically and infrastructurally – those at the table and the community at-large for input and buy-in.

Regional Public Integrity Officers
I see that NY Attorney General Schneiderman has provided the balance to this idea, an in-house reporting system to him - designation of regional officers called, “public integrity officers”. The services from these offices must be above reproach and each regional public integrity officer must be known for his/her enforcement of the validity of complaints without hesitation, no matter who/what it is.

This is enforcement with speed, civility and “integrity”.
Both the non-profit committee and the designation of "cops on the beat" should have the face and fingerprint of AG Eric T. Schneiderman.

Let’s see if this good-potential great idea is "made" to be what it can be.

For AG reports, go to:
AG designates ‘cop on the beat’ for Westchester, Rockland and Putnam
http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com

State Bill to Take on Public Corruption
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/nyregion/04prosecute.html?scp=3&sq=New%20York%20Attorney%20General%20Looks%20to%20Overhaul%20State's%20Nonprofit%20Regulations&st=Search

Milwaukee Professionals Association applauds both ideas and will seek to advance likeness to Wisconsin - a recommendation for Wisconsin legislature.