April 19, 2023 – New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government Chairman Fred Davie and Executive Director Sandy Berland talk about the future of the nascent watchdog and how it plans on striking the right oversight balance in Planet Albany.

Dec. 30, 2022 – Sandy Berland, the former executive director of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, discusses his new role as top staffer at the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government. He talks about his objectives, the structure of the new oversight entity and reflects on his time at JCOPE. Listen to the full interview below.

We are pleased to announce that the Commission has just posted to fill vacancies in over a dozen operational and management positions, another step in ensuring that the new Commission has the staffing and resources necessary to fulfilling its mission - to oversee, regulate and ensure compliance with New York State’s ethics and lobbying laws through education, training, guidance, disclosure and audits and, when necessary, through investigations and enforcement proceedings.