Dr. Larry Heintz's talk on "An Ethicist's Take on the Hawaii County Board of Ethics" at the General Meeting of the Hawai`i County League of Women Voters on Saturday, January 10th, 2022, followed by Q&A. His discussion covered topics such as:
- Purpose, Structure & Actions (Petitions, Complaints, Advisory Opinions, Penalties)
- The Code, Dramatic Cases & Issues (Mauna Kea Access Road, Failures to Disclose & Recusals)
- The Sunshine Law - a help or a hindrance to good governance
Speaker's Bio
Dr. Heintz is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Hilo. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a specialization in Ethical Theory. His dissertation was titled “Duty, Obligation and Moral Responsibility: a Commitment Theory of Obligation”. He taught Philosophy for 37 years in Universities in California, Oregon, & Hawaii. He conducted post-doctoral research in Ethics, Medicine and Law as it relates to issues of Death and Dying for one year each at Oxford University (1986-7), The Frei Universitet in Amsterdam (2001-2) and The University of Auckland in New Zealand (2010). He has published numerous articles in Journals in Philosophy and Health Care.
He served as “Philosopher in Residence” at Hilo Hospital in 1982-3 and founded the Hospital’s Ethics Committee in 1983. He was appointed to the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Living & Dying with Dignity (1996-8). He has served as consulting medical ethicist for 39 years for the State Department of Health and Hawaii Hospital Systems Corporation where he continues today. He was appointed to the Hawaii County Board of Ethics in 2019 by Mayor Harry Kim.
Hawaii County Board of Ethics
- County boards & commissions
https://www.hawaiicounty.gov/our-county/boards-and-commissions - Board of Ethics folder (agendas, documents, minutes, opinions)
https://records.hawaiicounty.gov/weblink/Browse.aspx?dbid=1&startid=751
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