Committee seeks tougher disclosure for independent expenditures while removing registration barrier
The draft would lower registration friction and require disclosure of source-of-funds information for independent expenditures above $250 while removing a $2,500 registration trigger that created enforcement problems with outside groups.
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Committee members and staff discussed independent expenditures and the difficulty of enforcing a $2,500 registration trigger when the spender was a separate national entity. Ted Hewitt explained the proposed approach: keep low-threshold reporting and require a general disclosure of the source of funds so the city gets more information, but remove the $2,500 automatic registration requirement that proved hard to enforce in practice.
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