SACRAMENTO – Judiciary leaders are seeking public comments on proposed amendments to the Code of Judicial Ethics, including a controversial change that would require candidates for judicial office to take an ethics course.

The proposed changes are the product of two years of work by the California Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Code of Judicial Ethics. The panel was tasked with crafting new rules based on changes in the American Bar Association’s Model Code of Judicial Conduct and recommendations from the California Commission for Impartial Courts.

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