Rule 204. Board Action and Publication of Opinions and Guidance.
(a) Review of Panel Advice. The Board shall review all Panel Advice as soon as practicable. The Board may adopt the Panel’s Advice as the opinion of the Board (‘‘Opinion’’), or may determine that the Advice should be modified or reversed by the Board. The inquiring judicial officer shall be promptly notified of the Board’s decision.
(b) Publication of Board Opinions. Opinions of the Board shall be published on an area of the Board’s web page available only to judicial officers, and shall be redacted to remove information that might tend to identify the inquiring judicial officer or any other person. The redacted Opinions shall be posted in searchable form, and shall be indexed by the relevant provisions of the applicable Code. The Board may exempt an Opinion from publication if the Board finds that the identity of the requester cannot be protected to the Board’s satisfaction through redaction.
(c) General Ethics Guidance. The Board may, in its discretion, issue general ethics advisory guidance (‘‘General Guidance’’) on relevant topics. Such General Guidance may be published on a public area of the Board’s web page.
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