A hearing on Monday centered on a touchy subject for the Miami-Dade County Commission: Who gets to investigate commissioners?
Legislation to broaden who the commission can hire as inspector general advanced through a committee hearing, meaning it will be up for a vote before the full board of 13 county commissioners later this year. But the debate got heated, with commissioners arguing over whether they should be rewriting the hiring rules for a position that recently launched an investigation that has a former commissioner facing prison time and is currently investigating a charity tied to a sitting commissioner.
“We all talk about how we’re anti-corruption and we’re anti-fraud,” Commissioner Raquel Regalado said in opposing most of the proposed changes to the county’s current law on how to select the inspector general. “This is an opportunity to vote that way.”…