Members of the compliance and ethics profession are pushing the U.S Department of Justice to provide more information about when and how it gives credit to organizations for ethics and compliance programs in its enforcement actions.
The DoJ “could significantly help ethics and compliance officers by initiating a specific, coordinated effort to gather E&C-related information about its enforcement decisions from all its prosecutors and then make that information easy for the private sector to obtain,” according to a joint report by the Ethics Resource Center, Ethics & Compliance Officer Association, and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. The report and recommendations are based on surveys of more than 1,200 members of those groups.
