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Enforcement staff outline expanded fixed-penalty program and collections update from BDR
Summary
Enforcement staff proposed a streamlined administrative resolution program (SARP) to expand fixed-penalty dispositions to roughly 35 violation types across campaign finance, lobbying and conflicts rules; the commission also heard from the Bureau of Delinquent Revenue on collection practices, including a typical $1,000 threshold for escalated collection and the bureau’s use of skip-tracing and payment-plan agreements.
Eric Willett, a senior investigative analyst in the Ethics Commission’s enforcement division, outlined a proposal to expand the commission’s existing fixed-penalty program into a Streamlined Administrative Resolution Program (SARP). Willett said staff reviewed other jurisdictions and stakeholder input and preliminarily identified about 35 violation types from the Campaign Finance Reform Ordinance (CFRO), lobbying ordinance and conflict-of-interest code that could be eligible for standardized penalties and faster resolutions. He said exclusions…
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