Union Files Ethics Complaints Against Register, School Board

Metro Schools director Jesse Register has been slapped with an ethics complaint. The Service Employees International Union has been at odds with the superintendent over financial disclosures. The union also filed complaints against the nine members of the school board.

Public officials in Metro Government must report gifts from third parties and outside sources of income.

There’s dispute about whether the city’s ethics code reaches to the school system, which is not directly run by Metro Government. But even Mayor Karl Dean, who is one of Jesse Register’s biggest cheerleaders, has called on the schools director to make annual disclosures.

In a recent letter to The Tennessean, Register says the school system’s ethics code doesn’t require financial disclosures.

However, school officials have asked Metro’s legal department for an opinion on how the city’s ethics code applies to the district’s employees.