Ethics Cases of the Year 2023 -- CM | 1 | E

Sunday, April 2, 2023

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CDT

Location: 115A

CM | 1

Division Endorsement: Planning and Law Division

Moderator and Speaker(s)

Karen Wolf, FAICP (she/her/hers)

President, AICP Commission
American Institute of Certified Planners
SEATTLE, Washington

Speaker(s)

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Ralph Willmer, FAICP (he/him/his)

AICP Ethics Officer
American Planning Association
Arlington, Massachusetts
Staron Faucher, AICP

Supervising Transportation Planner
WSP
Dallas, Texas
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Kimberley Mickelson, JD, AICP (she/her/hers)

Sr. Ass't City Attorney III
City Attorney's Office, City of Houston
Houston, Texas
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Barry C. Nocks, FAICP

Professor Emeritus & Lecturer
Clemson University
Greenville, South Carolina

This presentation qualifies for 1 Ethics CM.

Learn about current topics in planning ethics from the Ethics Officer and members of the AICP Ethics Committee. Understand current planning ethics topics, including how the AICP Code of Ethics applies to real-life challenging issues facing professionals today. Learn, firsthand, how the new Code of Ethics was applied in its first year. The updated Code of Ethics reemphasizes the commitment to equity and inclusion, to opposing harassment, and to preventing the misuse of the AICP credential.

Following a short introduction on the AICP Code of Ethics – including data on current topics – panelists will present several ethics scenarios based on real-life cases brought before the Ethics Officer and the Ethics Committee in 2022. Topics may include plagiarism, conflict of interest, emails/social media, and harassment. The session will include an interactive discussion segment during each of the cases and a general question and answer session at the end, as time allows.

NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Advanced. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.

Learning Objectives:

Get reacquainted with the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
Learn from actual ethical concerns brought to the AICP Ethics Committee in the past year.
Get ethics perspectives from members of the AICP Ethics Committee.