Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY › Division 90 - Missouri 911 Service Board › Chapter 1 - Board Operations › Section 11 CSR 90-1.030 - Code of Ethics

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: The board is charged with assisting and
				  advising the state in ensuring the availability, implementation, and
				  enhancement of a statewide emergency telephone number common to all
				  jurisdictions. The board and its staff are held to the highest ethical and
				  professional standards and must conduct all business in a manner which
				  maintains the public trust. Therefore, the following Code of Ethics prescribes
				  measures to prohibit practices that possess a potential of wrong-doing or the
				  appearance of impropriety.
(1) Standard of Compliance for Board and its
				Staff. Each member of the board and all board staff are directed to read and
				comply with this Code of Ethics and with Executive Order 92-04 dated January
				31, 1992. For the purposes of this Code of Ethics, the term staff shall include
				the board's executive director, staff, and state employees who provide
				day-to-day services to the board. The board shall be responsible for the
				enforcement of applicable statutes, the provisions of the Executive Order, and
				this rule by the suspension or discharge, other disciplinary action, or other
				action as the board deems appropriate.
(2) Compensation. No member or staff of the
				board shall solicit anything of value, nor shall any member or staff of the
				board accept anything of value, in addition to that compensation received from
				the board or state of Missouri in their official capacity, intended to
				influence the member or staff's official duties or in exchange for having
				exercised the member's or staff's official powers or performed the member's or
				staff's official duties in a particular manner. For the purposes of this rule,
				grant or payment of a thing of value to another person on behalf of the member
				or staff shall be considered grant or payment to the member or staff. Nothing
				in this rule shall preclude the acceptance of any award, presentation, honor,
				or memorabilia presented to the member or staff of the board in recognition of
				his/her performance in his/her official capacity and not designed to influence
				any particular action taken by the member or staff of the board.
(3) Confidentiality. No information furnished
				to the board by a corporation, organization, or person that the board deems to
				be a closed record under Chapter 610, RSMo, shall be open to public inspection
				or made public except on order of the board.
(4) Use of Confidential Information. No
				member or staff of the board shall use or disclose confidential information
				gained in the member's or staff's official position or activities to further
				the member's or staff's own financial or political interests or the financial
				or political interests of anyone else.
(5) Duty to Maintain Confidentiality. A
				former member or staff of the board having information that s/he knows is
				confidential governmental information or knew was confidential governmental
				information at the time the member or staff acquired the information about a
				person or matter subject to the jurisdiction of the board while the member or
				staff was associated with the board, may not disclose such information without
				the consent of the board granted before such disclosure and after complete
				disclosure to the board of the information sought to be disclosed, all persons
				to whom the information is to be disclosed, and the reasons for such
				disclosure. Confidential information means information that has been obtained
				under governmental authority and which, at the time this rule is applied, the
				government or the board is prohibited by law from disclosing to the public or
				has a legal privilege not to disclose, and which is not otherwise available to
				the public.