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Santa Clara residents, city officials, staff, and anyone concerned about ethical governance and public trust. Santa Clara's story—both its rise as a national ethics model and its current decline—can teach any community what ethical governance looks like, what it doesn't, and how to rebuild when public trust is broken.
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Twenty-five years ago, Santa Clara was a national model for ethical governance. Today, ethics is ignored, optional, or treated as a weapon or the enemy. The people of Santa Clara deserve ethical leadership, good governance, and public trust. When government forgets those duties, the people of Santa Clara need to remind them. If they don't respond appropriately, it is time for the people to become more involved and insistent.