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Ethics for Clerks
Knowing the Rules: Ethics for Clerks: Impropriety
Cold Hard Cash

Principles
1. Impartiality
2. Personal Integrity
3. Professionalism
4. Confidentiality
5. Impropriety
6. Appearance of Impropriety
7. Prohibition Against Giving Legal Advice
8. Duty of Service
9. Competency
10. Discrimination
11. Harassment
12. Technology

Resources
California Code of Ethics
Personnel Rules
What Information Can Court Staff Provide?
Diego considers putting the money in the coffee fund.

 

 

A clerk sometimes receives payment in cash on bench warrant fines. He decides to:

Choose the best answer.
1. Hold ten per cent of those cash payments and use it for the court employees’ coffee fund.
2. Deposit all the funds in the appropriate accounts promptly, but ask defendants for voluntary donations to the clerks' coffee fund.
3. Deposit all the funds in the appropriate accounts promptly and donate $5 of his own money to the coffee fund.

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