SEC. 3.1-158. CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF.
§ 3.1-158
This section requires certain Department of Child Support Services employees (Account Clerks and Accounting Supervisors in Category 2) to publicly disclose income, investments, and business positions related to services, supplies, materials, machinery, or equipment they help the department purchase.
Some City employees who work on buying things for the Department of Child Support Services have to file forms saying if they own stock in, work for, or make money from companies that sell those kinds of products. This is to prevent conflicts of interest—where an employee might benefit from steering the city's purchases to a company they have a stake in.
- Complex:The disclosure requirement is stated in abstract terms ('services, supplies, materials, machinery or equipment of the type used') that require readers to understand what kinds of goods the department actually buys, making it hard to know exactly what must be disclosed without additional context.
- Could be simpler:The rule could be clearer if it specified the actual categories of goods and services the Department purchases (e.g., legal services, office equipment, support software) rather than the generic phrase 'of the type used by the Department.'
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Official text
Disclosure Category 2. Persons in this category shall, for services, supplies, materials, machinery or equipment that they participate in purchasing, disclose all income from, investments in, and business positions held in business entities which provide such services, supplies, materials, machinery or equipment of the type used by the Department of Child Support Services.
Designated Positions
Disclosure Categories
Director
1
Deputy Director
1
Account Clerk
2
Accounting Supervisor
2
Managing Attorney
1
Staff Attorney
1
(Added by Ord. 93-08, File No. 090199, App. 6/10/2009; amended by Ord. 251-16, File No. 161158, App. 12/22/2016, Eff. 1/21/2017; Ord. 33-25, File No. 240904, App. 3/14/2025, Eff. 4/14/2025)
SEC. 3.1-160. [REDESIGNATED.]
(Added by Ord. 71-00, File No. 000358, App. 4/28/2000; amended by Ord. 80-07, File No. 070122, App. 4/19/2007; Ord. 251-16, File No. 161158, App. 12/22/2016, Eff. 1/21/2017; redesignated as Sec. 3.1-206 and amended by Ord. 13-23 , File No. 221025, App. 2/9/2023, Eff. 3/12/2023)
(Derivation: Former Administrative Code Section 58.150)