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Ethics commission approves ballot measure to tighten gifts, training and conflicts rules for March 2024 ballot
Summary
The San Francisco Ethics Commission voted unanimously Aug. 18 to place a multi-part ballot measure on the March 5, 2024 ballot that would strengthen gift restrictions, expand annual ethics training to Form 700 filers and add procedural changes; commissioners amended language to remove a broadly worded dual‑employment prohibition after stakeholder concerns.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission on Aug. 18 voted unanimously to place a proposed ordinance and regulation package on the March 5, 2024 ballot that would tighten city ethics rules on gifts, require broader ethics training and change how some ethics-code amendments are approved.
The measure — the culmination of a multiyear project staff described as the commission’s top policy priority — would strengthen the city’s restricted‑source rule for gifts, expand annual ethics training requirements to Form 700 filers, codify department-level incompatibility rules into a uniform standard and require supermajority approval by both the Board of Supervisors and the Ethics Commission for some future ethics‑code changes. Acting policy and legislative affairs manager Michael Kenny told commissioners the proposals grew from a three‑phase review started after local corruption allegations surfaced in 2020 and that…
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