Code of Conduct: What Now?

Those in attendance at the Portland conference faced the challenge of coming up with a list of implementation tactics or strategies that local associations could employ to ensure that their members buy into the code.

"We think that having a code of conduct evaluates the profession and the avocation," stated Struckhoff. "It certainly improves the image of officials to the public. It clearly expresses the expectations. And it promotes the integrity and a higher standard of behavior for officials. All officials certainly are living up to the same set of standards."