Word: ombudsman
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Jane Leavy '68, assistant to the director of the Health Services, said that since UHS first hired an ombudsman for students general health care has improved and more complaints have been taken seriously...
...education throughout the state and thus go a long way toward equalizing education in the cities, suburbs and rural areas. Anderson has had other victories. All legislative meetings of any kind must now be open to the public?no more private executive sessions in the legislature. A full-time ombudsman has been established in the corrections department. The magnificent St. Croix River has been added to the National Scenic River System. Voter registration has in effect been abolished. Anderson has also started a massive reorganization of the executive branch in Minnesota, establishing a department of state planning designed to decentralize...
...Legislative Branch is locked in direct conflict with the Executive. Only last year Justice William O. Douglas argued that it is "no concern of the courts, as I see it whether a committee of Congress can obtain [an Executive Department document]. The federal courts do not sit as an ombudsman, refereeing the disputes between the other two branches." The statement was an aside in a dissent; but since that is the view of the court's most liberally activist member, it seems possible that the Supreme Court might decline to rule on "Nixon v the Ervin Committee," rather than...
...powers and use opportunities that Yorty overlooked, reminding his commissioners of his big election mandate. He has called for the crash development of detoxification centers for drug addicts, the use of volunteer community patrols to curb street crime and gang violence in schools and the setting up of an ombudsman to initiate public hearings and investigations...
...different people. Since Dr. Wacker became director in July 1971, everything has opened up. Things are more honest, people are more accessible, there's a lot more input from a variety of people. It was Dr. Wacker who accepted my proposal to create a position of ombudsman, a gesture of good faith on his part in the consumer population. It was more or less giving official status to an infiltrator...