Oakland voters will decide the fate of a ballot measure on Nov. 5 aimed at strengthening and updating the city’s Public Ethics Commission.
Measure OO, which requires a majority vote to pass, would change the qualifications for PEC commissioners, tighten rules governing lobbyist gifts to elected officials, add one more investigator to the commission’s staff — for a total of two — and authorize the PEC executive director to hire outside lawyers on issues where the city attorney has a conflict of interest, among other things.
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