He helped block changes in ethics policies that Democrats proposed last year.

The newspaper's ethics policy forbids staff writers to make news decisions about companies in which they have a financial interest.

The village's ethics policy prohibits officials from using their positions for personal benefit.

Because I am considered tainted according to the paper's ethics policy.

Employees should remember that standards of ethical behavior and other ethics policies are applicable.

We don't cooperate on coverage, share style books or even ethics policies, for that matter.

But paying people to demonstrate would violate the company's ethics policies, she said.

It said freelancers "should sign a statement that they have read and fully understand our ethics policy."

The incident has also called into question a newspaper's ability to enforce its own ethics policies.

More broadly, both surveys indicate that a written ethics policy, in itself, is not enough to change behavior.