The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics responds to written inquiries from New York state's approximately 3,600 judges and justices, as well as hundreds of judicial hearing officers, support magistrates, court attorney-referees, and judicial candidates (both judges and non-judges seeking election to judicial office). The committee interprets the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct (22 NYCRR Part 100) and, to the extent applicable, the Code of Judicial Conduct. The committee consists of 27 current and retired judges, and is co-chaired by former associate justice George D. Marlow of the Appellate Division and the Honorable Margaret Walsh, a justice of the Supreme Court.

Digest: A part-time judge may serve on a county executive's working group to review training at the county police academy, where the group's membership is balanced and its goal is to help reduce and eliminate implicit bias. The judge must, however, be mindful of the need to maintain public confidence in his/her impartiality and must take particular care not to comment on any pending or impending case in the United States or its territories.

Rules: CPL 1.20; 22 NYCRR 100.0(S); 100.1; 100.2; 100.2(A); 100.2(C); 100.2(D); 100.3(A); 100.3(B)(4); 100.3(B)(8); 100.3(C)(1)-(2); 100.4(A)(1), (3); 100.4(B); 100.4(C)(2)(a)-(b); 100.6(B)(1); Opinions 20-04; 19-80; 19-29; 18-76; 17-42; 15-179; 14-77.