Ohio ethics officer will speak at citizens' league dinner

YOUNGSTOWN -- David Freel, executive director of the Ohio Ethics Commission, will be the keynote speaker at the Citizens' League of Greater Youngstown's annual dinner at 6 p.m. April 3 at the Youngstown Club on East Commerce Street.
Freel's topic will be "Ethics is Everybody's Business: The Mahoning Valley at an Ethical Crossroads."
Tickets cost $25 each, and reservations must be made by March 27. For tickets, write the league at P.O. Box 211, Youngstown, 44501, or call Deborah Mathews at (330) 743-8538 or Lowell Satre at (330) 743-2748.
Details: Freel, a Niles native, has been the ethics commission's executive director since 1994, supervising a staff of 22 employees.
The commission's responsibilities include providing ethics advice to public officials and employees, managing financial disclosure made by 10,500 public officeholders and conducting public education and training.
The citizens' league describes itself as a nonpartisan group that combats organized crime and political corruption in the Mahoning Valley.