SEC. 1.110. CAMPAIGN STATEMENTS - PUBLIC ACCESS.
§ 1.110
Campaign statements filed in San Francisco must be publicly available for inspection and copying at the Ethics Commission office and on its website, retained for at least eight years, and must disclose spending on electronic communications promotion as required by state law.
Campaign finance reports must be open for anyone to look at and copy during business hours at the Ethics Commission office and online. The Commission keeps these reports for at least eight years. Campaigns also have to report money spent on promoting written messages, audio, or videos online.
- Complex:The section cross-references state law (California Government Code Section 81009 and the Political Reform Act) without defining the specific requirements those statutes impose, making full compliance depend on understanding external documents.
- Controversial:Campaign finance transparency and disclosure is a subject on which San Francisco residents and policymakers hold differing views regarding the appropriate level and type of public information required.
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Official text
SEC. 1.110. CAMPAIGN STATEMENTS – PUBLIC ACCESS.
(a) INSPECTION AND COPYMAKING. Campaign statements are to be open for public inspection and reproduction at the Office of the Ethics Commission during regular business hours and such additional hours as the Ethics Commission determines appropriate. The Commission shall provide public notice of the hours that the office is open for inspection and reproduction. The Ethics Commission shall also make campaign statements available through its website.
(b) RETENTION. Every campaign statement required to be filed in accordance with Section 1.106 shall be preserved by the Ethics Commission for the period required under Section 81009 of the California Government Code and any subsequent amendments thereto, or such additional periods as the Ethics Commission determines appropriate, provided that the period of retention is not less than eight years from the date the statement was required to be filed.
(c) ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS. Campaign statements shall disclose, as required by the Political Reform Act, expenditures on electronic communications. Without limitation, campaigns shall disclose expenditures on the promotion of and efforts to increase popularity of any written communications, or any audio or video content distributed electronically.
(Formerly Secs. 1.110 and 1.112; added by Ord. 71-00, File No. 000358, App. 4/28/2000; amended by Proposition O, 11/7/2000; Ord. 141-03, File No. 030034, App. 6/27/2003; Ord. 129-18, File No. 180280, App. 5/30/2018, Eff. 6/30/2018, Oper. 6/30/2018)