Board of Ethics adopts new campaign‑finance complaint rule, presents IT best‑practices report

The Louisiana Board of Ethics adopted a rule on March 19 that implements the campaign‑finance complaint response period created by last year’s legislation and presented a best‑practices report on campaign‑finance IT systems and proposed legislative fixes.

David Bordelon, the board’s new ethics administrator, told the Joint Committee on Governmental Affairs that the rule closely tracks the statute’s language and is designed to speed complaint resolution while preserving respondents’ procedural safeguards. Under the procedure described in the rule, staff will send a copy of a complaint to a respondent within five business days; the respondent will then have 15 days to provide a written response or corrective action. The board will receive the matter on its next available docket after that response period and may dismiss, request further…