Word: ombudsman
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...long-range growth plan, he hopes to limit the city's population to 4,000,000 (it is now approaching 3,000,000). He calls for the building of a rapid-transit rail system, free public transportation for people over 65, and the appointment of a city ombudsman to help cut bureaucratic red tape. Yorty is content with merely echoing that Los Angeles is the greatest, and that he is the man to keep it going and growing the way it has been. As an aide says: "There is a kind of comfort with Sam Yorty." But pre-primary...
...words, Epps is an ombudsman for students and a general sounding borad for their complaints. He sees himself as an extension of the Commission on Inquiry--a Faculty-appointed body with the same types of duties. "There is a need for some officer in the Administration who understands the way the College works to provide information that would help people find the right place in the bureaucracy," Epps says...
...agents recently held a conference at Princeton on the FBI. One suggestion called for creation of a board of overseers to review FBI policies and especially to safeguard civil liberties. It could be composed of distinguished persons both within and outside the Government. Others urged development of an ombudsman system, through which anyone could seek help if he felt that his rights were being violated by FBI practices. The conference suggested giving FBI agents the right to criticize FBI policies without facing disciplinary action...
...hearings before the Committee to Re-examine the Commission of Inquiry to be held Tuesday, March 20 and Thursday, March 22, students should insist that the Faculty implement those changes necessary to turn the Commission into an effective ombudsman-like body...
...Commission can effectively serve as ombudsman only when empowered to review all Faculty and Administrative decisions. Students will justifiably condemn the Commission until the Commission can at least recommend reversing decisions, until as many students as Faculty serve on the Commission, and until it becomes the first step toward creating a sense of mutual responsibility among students and Faculty--impossible until the CRR is also reconceived...