Why Did the New Rochelle Board of Ethics Suddenly Decide It Had No Jurisdiction?

Written By: Robert Cox

DUBLIN, IRELAND (August 20, 2026) — For years, the New Rochelle Board of Ethics accepted and acted on ethics complaints — including several that led to sustained findings. Then, starting in mid-2024, the Board began declining to consider complaints at all, citing a reading of the city’s ethics code that contradicts its own prior practice and, in Robert Cox’s vueq, the code’s plain language. He explains here: Words in Edgewise.

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