Highway workers for the first time in decades are taking stock of thousands of spare parts.
Code enforcement officials are conducting building inspections they had regularly skipped.
Political operatives now check election laws they previously flouted at will.
Two years after Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota launched a wide-ranging corruption investigation, the culture of government is changing in the Republican-dominated town of Brookhaven and beyond.
The probe, yielding 13 convictions to date, has tainted both major parties and snared officials in towns, the school districts and the business community, fostering a newfound attention to the law in places where graft and no-show jobs have been routine.
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