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Ethics Commission adopts clearer public-financing regulations and a revised appeals standard, defers penalty ordinance
Summary
The San Francisco Ethics Commission approved regulatory changes to the public-financing program that clarify the appeals process — adopting a bifurcated standard of review — and postponed a proposed penalty ordinance to the December meeting for legal review.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission on its regularly scheduled meeting approved revisions to the public-financing regulations that clarify how the commission will review appeals from candidates, and deferred consideration of a separate penalty ordinance for further legal study.
Pat Ford, the commission's senior policy analyst, presented a package of recommendations that included Attachment 1 (regulations) and two separate ordinance proposals. Ford said the draft regulations would create an explicit standard of review for appeals and highlighted an alternative, bifurcated standard: "for questions of law, no deference would be given to staff determinations" while "for questions of fact, they…
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