NOTICE OF PUBLIC CENSURE No. SP 2019-046

Published on Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 2:16:33 PM

The Local Government Standards Panel has found that Councillor Benjamin Bell, a Councillor of the Shire of Toodyay, breached regulation 7(1)(b) of the Local Government (Rules of Conduct) Regulations 2007 (WA) when he made several false, misleading and derogatory Facebook Posts on 10 February 2019.

Councillor Bell’s conduct was in breach of the Shire’s Code of Conduct and deserving of a penalty and the comments were found by the Local Government Standard’s Panel to be false or misleading and likely to cause detriment to Mr Stan Scott and Cr Therese Chitty.

The Panel censures Councillor Bell for the breach of regulation 7(1)(b) of the Local Government (Rules of Conduct) Regulations 2007 (WA).

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
STANDARDS PANEL

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