City & County of San Francisco
San FranciscoEthics Commission

Dear Colleagues: cc: Departmental Filing Officers I am writing today to let you know that the Ethics Commission has not yet received a submission from your department confirming your department’s Conflict of Interest Code (“COI”) designated Form 700 filers. As detailed in prior notices from our office this summer, this information is necessary to successfully […]

Department Heads and Filing Officers: On Monday, August 2nd, the Ethics Commission sent out a communication to departments with the subject line [Ethics Form 700 E-Filing Expansion Project | Confirm your Form 700 Designated Filers by September 15th] seeking action on critical next steps in the transition to electronic filing for all Form 700 designated […]

Department Heads and Filing Officers: This notice seeks your department’s action on critical next steps in the transition to electronic filing for all Form 700 designated filers on January 1, 2022. Effective January 1, 2022, employees occupying designated positions (“designed filers”) identified in Sections 3.1-103(d) and 3.1-108 of the City’s Conflict of Interest Code will […]

Department Heads: Last month’s email from our Executive Director, LeeAnn Pelham, announced that effective January 1, 2022, employees occupying designated positions in the City’s Conflict of Interest Code, who currently file their Statement of Economic Interest (Form 700) statements on paper, will be required to file their statements in electronic format using the Ethics Commission’s […]

This guide was produced by the San Francisco Ethics Commission. It contains step-by-step instructions illustrating how to file a registration statement for returning lobbyists. Click here to download Click to access Contact-Lobbyist-Registration-Returning-Lobbyist-How-to-Guide.pdf

This guide was produced by the San Francisco Ethics Commission. It contains step-by-step instructions illustrating how to file a registration statement for new lobbyists. Click here to download Click to access Contact-Lobbyist-Registration-New-Lobbyist-How-to-Guide.pdf

This guide was produced by the San Francisco Ethics Commission. It contains step-by-step instructions illustrating how to amend a previously filed registration statement. Click here to download Click to access Contact-Lobbyist-Registration-Amendment-How-to-Guide.pdf

This guide was produced by the San Francisco Ethics Commission. It contains step-by-step instructions illustrating how to file a monthly lobbyist statement. Click here to download Click to access Contact-Lobbyist-Monthly-New-How-to-Guide.pdf

This guide was produced by the San Francisco Ethics Commission. It contains step-by-step instructions illustrating how to amend a previously filed monthly statement. Click here to download Click to access Contact-Lobbyist-Monthly-Amendment-How-to-Guide.pdf

The City and County of San Francisco has a paramount interest in protecting the integrity of its government institutions. To further this interest, City law provides a process for reporting improper government activity, and an additional process for protecting whistleblowers from retaliation they might face in response to having reported such activity. Whistleblower protections apply […]