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Article: States vary in government watchdogs ; Ohio's Office of Inspector General was established in 1988 under the Celeste administration.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- May 18, 2008
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COLUMBUS -- There's no perfect way to spotlight and weed out
corruption and wrongdoing in state government, but Ohio and other
states keep trying.
Nationally there's a patchwork, with individual states embracing
different oversight responsibilities for the inspector general, said
Fred Palm, who's conducting a study of the 23 existing states
attorneys general.
"Clearly, there's no ideal," said Palm, executive director of the
Association of Inspector Generals. "Everyone who has taken a whack
at this ball has come up with a different configuration."
In nine states, the chief executive picks the inspector general,
who serves at the chief executive's pleasure, said Palm. In other
states, there ...
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