April 21, 1995
DO-95-021
MEMORANDUM
TO: Designated Agency Ethics Officials
FROM: Stephen D. Potts
Director
SUBJECT: Results of the Office of Government Ethics' (OGE) Field
Office Ethics Programs Survey
On October 31, 1994, OGE sent out DAEOgram #DO-94-037, "Field
Office Ethics Programs Survey," to selected civilian departments and
agencies (hereinafter referred to collectively as "agencies"). The
purpose of this survey was to determine which civilian agencies have
bona fide "field office ethics programs," and the locations of these
programs. A bona fide field office ethics program was defined as a
field office program that collects, reviews, and retains financial
disclosure reports and/or conducts ethics training, in addition to
providing oral and written ethics advice. Agencies were sent the
DAEOgram if they were civilian, non-Department of Defense related
agencies and they had indicated on the previous "Annual Agency Ethics
Program Questionnaire" that they had regional ethics officials.
The survey data we received includes the following information:
Name of agency (and name of component, if
applicable);
Name, address, and phone number of contact
person; and
Elements of the office's ethics program, such as
SF 278 review, SF 450 review/retention,
training, and advice.
Although some follow up was done to ensure completeness of the data
submitted, individual entries were not verified for accuracy.
Regional offices may find this information useful to coordinate
training efforts, resolve routine issues, and ultimately, conserve
resources. As a result, OGE has made the data available in two
formats: sorted by agency name and sorted by location. Please
forward this DAEOgram to your regional offices.
Because the documents are each quite lengthy, OGE will make them
available through TEBBS. Agencies may also obtain a disk copy of the
data (in WordPerfect 6.0), or may view a printout of each file in the
Ethics Information Center at OGE. Contact Lisa Deener at 202-523-
5757, ext. 1225, for more information.