Board of Commissioners of Cook County - File #: 19-0602

• File #: 19-0602
• Version: 1
• Name: AN AMENDMENT TO THE COOK COUNTY INSPECTOR GENERAL ORDINANCE - Confidential Reports
• Type: Ordinance Amendment
• Status: Approved
• File created: 12/5/2018
• In control: Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee
• On agenda: 12/12/2018
• Final action: 1/24/2019
• Title: PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT AN AMENDMENT TO THE COOK COUNTY INSPECTOR GENERAL ORDINANCE BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 2 - Administration, Article IV - Officers and Employees, Division 5 - Inspector General, Sections 2-288 and 2-291. are amended as Follows: Sec. 2-288. - Confidential Summary reports. Upon conclusion of any investigation, the Independent Inspector General shall submit a confidential summary report to the President, the appropriate head of any department or bureau to whose office the investigation pertains, the Chief of the Bureau of Human Resources and to the Purchasing Agent in the case of a sustained finding regarding a contractor, subcontractor, applicant for a contract, or person seeking certification of eligibility for a contract, and to the Board of Ethics in the case of a sustained finding regarding any violation of the Cook County Ethics Ordinance (Sections 2-560 through 2-603). If the Independent Inspector General ...
• Sponsors: LARRY SUFFREDIN, ALMA E. ANAYA, LUIS ARROYO JR, SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOHN P. DALEY, DENNIS DEER, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRIDGET GAINER, BRANDON JOHNSON, BILL LOWRY, DONNA MILLER, STANLEY MOORE, KEVIN B. MORRISON, SEAN M. MORRISON, PETER N. SILVESTRI, DEBORAH SIMS, JEFFREY R. TOBOLSKI

Date	Ver.	Action By	Motion	Result
1/24/2019	1	Board of Commissioners	approve as amended in the errata	Pass
1/23/2019	1	Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee	recommend for approval	Pass
12/12/2018	1	Board of Commissioners	refer	Pass

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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT

AN AMENDMENT TO THE COOK COUNTY INSPECTOR GENERAL ORDINANCE

BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 2 - Administration, Article IV - Officers and Employees, Division 5 - Inspector General, Sections 2-288 and 2-291. are amended as Follows:

Sec. 2-288. - Confidential Summary reports.

Upon conclusion of any investigation, the Independent Inspector General shall submit a confidential summary report to the President, the appropriate head of any department or bureau to whose office the investigation pertains, the Chief of the Bureau of Human Resources and to the Purchasing Agent in the case of a sustained finding regarding a contractor, subcontractor, applicant for a contract, or person seeking certification of eligibility for a contract, and to the Board of Ethics in the case of a sustained finding regarding any violation of the Cook County Ethics Ordinance (Sections 2-560 through 2-603). If the Independent Inspector General has conducted any investigations regarding the office, or an employee, contractor or subcontractor of a separately elected official, the Independent Inspector General also shall submit the confidential summary report to the elected official.

Confidential summary reports shall be labeled as such and shall contain the information set forth below in accordance with this section. Confidential summary reports received by any government official or employee shall only be used for official government purposes and may only be disclosed for official government purposes. The penalty for improper use or disclosure of confidential summary reports, including, but not limited to, a disclosure for political purposes, shall be governed by Section 2-291.

(a) The report shall include the following:

(1) A description of any complaints or other information received by the Independent Inspector General pertinent to the investigation.

(2) A description of any illegal conduct, corruption,...