Article: States vary in government watchdogs ; Ohio's Office of Inspector General was established in 1988 under the Celeste administration.

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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