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Safety Harbor commissioner cleared in ethics complaint

 
Published Feb. 4, 2016

SAFETY HARBOR — Almost a year after a conflict of interest complaint was filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics, City Commissioner Janet Hooper has been cleared.

The complaint was filed by James Barge, Milton Elliot, Deborah Desanya Daly, Michael Hornbuckle and John Wenrick last March, just after Hooper took office.

It was made in regard to Hooper's employment as executive director of the Mattie Williams Neighborhood Family Center, a nonprofit that gets funding from the city.

In a Jan. 22 session, the ethics commission found no probable cause to believe that Hooper had conflicting employment or that she had a prohibited business relationship with the city, according to a news release.