County ethics charter amendment on official stock trading
Summary
A citizen-submitted charter amendment would bar Luzerne County elected officials and employees from trading stocks or making prediction-market bets based on nonpublic information from their county jobs, and require annual public reporting of ethics complaints and related trades. The board was scheduled to decide whether it makes the November ballot.
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Last discussed Aug 19, 2026.
Impact analysis
The amendment itself has no direct price tag, but annual reporting requirements would carry administrative costs for county government.
County residents would gain new ethics rules and annual transparency reports covering officials' financial activity.
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