DeKalb Voters Asked To Weigh In On Revamped Rules For Appointing Ethics Board

Voters in DeKalb County will go to the polls Nov. 5 to give an up-or-down vote on a referendum over the county’s Board of Ethics.

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Voters in DeKalb are set to decide next week how much control the people who run the county have over its Board of Ethics.

How that board is chosen — and what it does —  has become controversial as the county tries to revive the oversight body.

The referendum simply asks “Shall the act be approved which revises the board of ethics for DeKalb County?”