Jeffrey Epstein memorial plaque appears at Donald Trump\u2019s Aberdeenshire golf course<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n When asked why they took the unusual step to block Redmond\u2019s appointments, an SNP source said: \u201cCllr Redmond is currently under investigation for leaking confidential information which calls into question his appropriateness to sit on these bodies.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m frankly surprised that the Labour leadership have proposed him in the first place, so much for their \u2018new direction\u2019.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Councillor James Adams, Labour\u2019s business manager, said he was concerned the move would set a precedent, with anyone facing a standards hearing unable to be approved to join a committee.\n<\/p>\n
\n It is believed the complaint against Redmond, who stepped down as Labour group leader in May,\u00a0 relates to the sharing of information on the appointment of a new council chief executive last year.\n<\/p>\n
\n Susanne Millar was picked to replace Annemarie O\u2019Donnell by the council\u2019s appointment of senior officers committee, which included Cllr Redmond, in March 2024.\n<\/p>\n
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\n The Standards Commission for Scotland will decide whether Redmond has breached the councillors\u2019 code of conduct.\n<\/p>\n
\n Last week, Glasgow Greens co-leader Jon Molyneux said: \u201cI can confirm that I submitted a standards complaint on April 12, 2024, relating to what I considered to be a very serious breach of the confidentiality provisions in the councillors\u2019 code of conduct.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI will not make any further comment on this matter as a hearing is now due to take place.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n On confidentiality, the code states councillors should not \u201cdisclose confidential information or information which should reasonably be regarded as being of a confidential or private nature, without the express consent of a person or body authorised to give such consent, or unless required to do so by law\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n It adds confidential information can include \u201cdiscussions, documents, information which is not yet public or never intended to be public, and information deemed confidential by statute\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n The code also states confidential information should not be used \u201cin any way for personal or party-political advantage or to discredit my council (even if my personal view is that the information should be publicly available)\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n Complaints against elected members are investigated by the Ethical Standards Commissioner, Ian Bruce, who reports to the Standards Commission. The Commission then decides whether to hold a hearing to determine whether the code has been contravened.\n<\/p>\n
\n When a breach of the code is found, the Commission will then decide on a sanction. These include censure, suspension and disqualification.\n<\/p>\n
\n A Labour group spokesperson said: \u201cThis is an unprecedented move by the Glasgow SNP and Greens.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBlocking councillors from carrying out their duties sets a deeply troubling precedent. The public deserve transparency at full council, not political manoeuvring.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for the Green group said: \u201cGiven that George Redmond is facing a standards hearing for a very serious complaint relating to breach of confidentiality, it is unthinkable that Labour thought it was okay to put him forward for a quasi-judicial role on the city\u2019s planning committee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Redmond is facing a standards hearing in November following an allegation he broke confidentiality rules. The city\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115186359491592214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}