Louisiana: St. Tammany Parish library staff must turn away holiday treats
After asking the state Board of Ethics last month whether library staff can accept inexpensive and homemade Christmas gifts from grateful patrons, St. Tammany Parish library officials last week received the board’s response: Bah, humbug.
Even small gifts, such as “cakes, pies, houseplants, etc., from patrons of the library for their performance of the library employees’ duties” are off-limits, according to an advisory opinion issued by the ethics board.
Any employee of a Louisiana public library who receives such a gift from a library patron needs to “return the cookies to the person and say that, ‘I cannot accept these cookies under the ethics law,’ ” said Aneatra Boykin, staff attorney for the ethics board.
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune
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