QUESTION
How does the Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB) decide whether to request the Department of Education (DOE) to initiate its own investigation?
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Milton Williams, Chair and Repeat Nominee for the Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB), describes the criteria for deciding to request the Department of Education (DOE) to initiate an investigation, emphasizing caution against reports solely based on media coverage.
- Milton Williams mentions preferring specific complaints or details before initiating an investigation.
- He expresses personal wariness towards initiating investigations based on media reports alone.
- The decision-making process normally involves assessing the specifics given to COIB.
- Williams defers to COIB staff and the executive director for detailed procedures and acknowledges a general unawareness of cases initiated by media reports.
Amanda FarÃas
0:37:23
How does COI decide whether to request DOE initiate its own investigation?
Milton Williams
0:37:29
Well, so it it would it it it it if if you we've talked has there been a specific complaint that came to COIP.
0:37:37
I don't my understanding, and and and and and again, I would defer to the staff and to the executive director.
0:37:44
But I don't know that we in some cases, we we might or might not pick I don't I'm unaware of anything that has come in as a result of a media report.
0:37:55
Okay?
Amy Millard
0:37:55
Mhmm.
Milton Williams
0:37:55
And I'd be very personally, okay, wary about opening necessarily opening investigation based on a media report.
0:38:05
Okay?
0:38:05
I think normally the way it works, we have we have more and there's there's specifics that that are that are given to COI before they be before they, you know, open an investigation.
