Los Angeles County candidates running for public office may be required to disclose campaign finances electronically under a proposal floated by a supervisor on May 13.
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky previewed the proposal at today’s Board of Supervisors and said he would formally propose it next week.
By then, “my hope is that we will have an ordinance presented to us as well,” he told an attorney with the Office of County Counsel.
The county established an electronic campaign finance program in 2007, based on a system developed by the city government.
Still, filing campaign forms electronically is voluntary. Some candidates still file paper documents, which cost the county more money to process and slow public disclosure, Yaroslavsky said.
“We could have this in force by July 1,” he told his board colleagues.
If so, the ordinance would apply to candidates fundraising for the November general election.
