Inquiry Concerning a Judge

This proceeding is before the Court upon a report of the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) recommending that Judge J. Allison DeFoor, II, receive a public reprimand. The JQC found that, while serving as a Monroe County Judge, DeFoor actively participated in political activity inappropriate to his judicial office, utilized his judicial office for the private and pecuniary interests of himself and others, and established an improper procedure by which certain traffic violators could avoid both a court appearance and an adjudication of guilt by paying to the clerk of the court double the…