The Office of Government Ethics is urging participation by agency ethics officials in its programs designed to facilitate the upcoming presidential transition, which it started with a summit earlier this year.
OGE said that since then it has held seven distance learning events involving some 1,500 registrants.
Its Transition Readiness Series combines distance learning and classroom learning to prepare officials to review the public financial disclosure reports of incoming nominees; advise those new employees about ethics requirements; counsel outgoing employees on issues related to seeking and negotiating for employment outside of government; educate new agency leaders on their role in supporting an ethical culture; and manage the workload of the post-election period.
“OGE is also in the process of seeking input from agencies about ways that it can support their ethics education needs in the months after the election,” it said.