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Question: Government employees hold a position of significant trust and responsibility. Accepting a government position, especially one that allows an individual to exercise power over the liberty, safety, or freedom of another, comes with high expectations. Prior to beginning work on this discussion:

Reflect: Consider the expectations for public employees and how they impact conduct for Homeland Security and/or Emergency Management professionals. How are these duties and responsibilities different than expectations for other non-enforcement government employees? Are the expectations realistic? Is the bar set too high or too low? Pay particular attention to the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct identified by the Ethics handbook. You do not need to answer these specific questions. They are provided as a starting point for your reflections.

Your assignment prompt is based on the first letter of your LAST name. For students whose last name starts with:

Your discussion prompt topic has been assigned based on the first letter of your last name.

Address how the assigned topic would influence professionalism and unbiased fulfillment of responsibilities.

Explain the impact of real and/or perceived violations of public trust.

Discuss how the rules or institutional standards on each of these topics might conflict with an individual's belief system.

Explain what a Conflict of Interest is (personal and/or financial), how a conflict might arise, and how it could influence professionalism and unbiased fulfillment of responsibilities. Then explain the impact of real and/or perceived violations of public trust.