First Supervisory District of Suffolk County 201 Sunrise Highway Patchogue, New York 11772 Board Policy 5240 Page 1 of 1 Employee Conflicts of Interest No employee of Eastern Suffolk BOCES shall engage in or have a financial interest, directly or indirectly, in any activity that conflicts or raises a reasonable question of conflict with his/her duties and responsibilities to ESBOCES, nor shall any employee engage in any type of private business during ESBOCES time or on ESBOCES property. No employee shall disclose confidential information acquired by him/her in the scope of his/her duties or use such information to further his/her interests. ESBOCES possesses a proprietary interest in all “work products” initiated, developed and/or completed by an ESBOCES employee within the course of his/her employment. All such work products are to be derived to the benefit solely of ESBOCES and not to the benefit of the employee. An ESBOCES employee shall not provide confidential information to any outside source when such information has been obtained during the employee’s course of employment with ESBOCES. First Adopted: 7/1/03 Readopted: 7/11/07