Joint Commission on Public Ethics: first the "joint"; ethics, an afterthought

Assistant Attorney General Mike Neppl's October 24, 2012 letter to Ellen Biben Executive Director of the NYS Joint Commission on Public Ethics indicates correspondence I'd sent fell under her agency's jurisdiction. It was forwarded by the Office of the Attorney General for her "review and whatever action you deem appropriate." Does that mean JCOPE should feel free to disregard it as it had already been disregarded since September 23, 2012 (and since however long the pages have read that way)?

Would you be able to contact JCOPE and get them to fix "the 'Little Hatch Act' (Civil Rights Law §107)" to "the 'Little Hatch Act' (Civil Service Law §107)" on each of the three following webpages?

http://www.jcope.ny.gov/complaint/tipsandcomplaints.html

http://www.jcope.ny.gov/complaint/complaintguidelines.html (it's wrong twice on the guidelines page)

http://www.jcope.ny.gov/about/jurisdiction.html

I contacted helpdesk@jcope.ny.gov on September 23, 2012 but they never responded and the pages haven't been fixed yet. Nobody likes a busybody, I know, but still: it really does need to be fixed *sometime*. Aside from the information being wrong, the Civil Rights Law doesn't even go up as high as §107.

This second question doesn't concern any members of JCOPE, but If there are NYS employees who did not make oaths of office for some or all of the state offices in which they were or are currently employed, what would N.Y. CIV. SERV. LAW §62, N.Y. EDUC. LAW §3002, and/or N.Y. CONST. Art. 13, §1 require being done? Or are those essentially toothless requirements?

I do have to give credit to the AG for a couple things though: automated acknowledgements are sent when anything's submitted to the AG's office, and that's a good thing. The NYS Inspector General is a black hole by comparison: submit something, and you may never subsequently hear a peep about it, and you don't even have anything to indicate you'd ever submitted it.

The AG also is pretty good about eventually sending a letter through the U.S. Mail indicating that they've referred the matter elsewhere. One would wish the AG would handle it rather than passing the buck, but it's better than nothing.

Presumably JCOPE received the AG's letter closer to October 24, 2012 than I received the cc'd letter (October 30, 2012 - that's a long delivery time for something within the county), but even if they didn't - how long should it take to change "Rights" to "Service" four times total across just three pages? It might take me all of a minute.

My comment that "it really does need to be fixed *sometime*" probably isn't really true. It really doesn't ever need to be fixed, because the public is both apathetic and ignorant and thus the government can do as it pleases. They might as well cite the "'Big Cookie Batch' (Monster Cookbook § 107)"; nobody would notice or care except people such as myself, who are easily disregarded.

One definition of big government is that regardless of the government's size, the individual is treated as small in relation to it. That's very much been the case here.