The state’s Judicial Conduct Board has proposed a rule change to strip its chief counsel of the ability to determine whether anonymous complaints warrant full investigations without consulting the board’s members.
The proposal, published in the March 12 issue of the Pennsylvania Bulletin , was adopted by the JCB early last year as a part of new internal operating procedures designed to restore authority to the board members. Those IOPs, however, are “directory” in nature and don’t require that such a practice be followed.
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