A. SUMMARY At the time of initial registration, a campaign consultant must submit a separate Authorization Statements for each client. If the client retains the campaign consultant's services after the date of initial registration, The Authorization Statement must be submitted before providing any campaign consulting services to the client and before receiving any economic consideration from the client in exchange for campaign consulting services. The Authorization Statement must be submitted no later than 15 days after being retained by a client to provide campaign consulting services. Once a campaign consultant's services to a client are terminated, a Termination Statement must be submitted to the Ethics Commission within 30 days. After a Termination Statement is submitted, a campaign consultant may not provide campaign consulting services to--or accept economic consideration for campaign consulting services from--the client until a new Authorization Statement has been filed. For more information, visit the Ethics Commission’s webpage on Campaign Consultants. B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED Data for this dataset is created when campaign consultants electronically file their Authorization and Termination Statements starting on December 9, 2024. C. UPDATE PROCESS The dataset is updated via the Socrata Publisher API as needed when form filings are submitted and signed by campaign consultants. D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET The unique row identifier for this dataset is “Envelope Id”. Depending on the type of statement (“TypeOfStatement”), not all columns will contain data because of different reporting requirements for each statement. E. RELATED DATASETS For detail reporting on campaign consultant activities, visit SFEC Campaign Consultant Report.

A. SUMMARY This dataset contains information about the clients section of the Campaign Consultant Report. For more information, visit the Ethics Commission’s webpage on Campaign Consultants. B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED Data for this dataset is created when campaign consultants electronically file the following reports with client information: Form 1 – Registration Report Form 3 – Quarterly Disclosure Report for Campaign Consultants Form 6 – Campaign Consultant Termination Statement This dataset contains reports filings starting from December 9, 2024, when electronic filing of campaign consultant reports will be required. C. UPDATE PROCESS The dataset is updated via the Socrata Publisher API as needed when form filings are submitted and signed by campaign consultants. D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET The unique row identifier for a client entry is “Entry Id”. This dataset should be joined with the SFEC Campaign Consultant Report dataset by “Envelope Id”. E. RELATED DATASETS For detail reporting on campaign consultant activities, visit SFEC Campaign Consultant Report.

A. SUMMARY This dataset contains information about the employees section of the Campaign Consultant Report. For more information, visit the Ethics Commission’s webpage on Campaign Consultants. B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED Data for this dataset is created when campaign consultants electronically file the following reports with employee information: Form 1 – Registration Report Form 2 – Re-registration Report This dataset contains reports filings starting from December 9, 2024, when electronic filing of campaign consultant reports will be required. C. UPDATE PROCESS The dataset is updated via the Socrata Publisher API as needed when form filings are submitted and signed by campaign consultants. D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET The unique row identifier for an employee entry is “Entry Id”. This data set should be joined with the SFEC Campaign Consultant Report dataset by “Envelope Id”. E. RELATED DATASETS For detail reporting on campaign consultant activities, visit SFEC Campaign Consultant Report.

A. SUMMARY This dataset contains information about the political contributions section of the Campaign Consultant Report. For more information, visit the Ethics Commission’s webpage on Campaign Consultants. B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED Data for this dataset is created when campaign consultants electronically file the following reports with political contribution information: Form 1 – Registration Report Form 3 – Quarterly Disclosure Report for Campaign Consultants Form 6 – Campaign Consultant Termination Statement This dataset contains reports filings starting from December 9, 2024, when electronic filing of campaign consultant reports will be required. C. UPDATE PROCESS The dataset is updated via the Socrata Publisher API as needed when form filings are submitted and signed by campaign consultants. D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET The unique row identifier for a contribution entry is “Entry Id”. This dataset should be joined with the SFEC Campaign Consultant Report dataset by “Envelope Id”. E. RELATED DATASETS For detail reporting on campaign consultant activities, visit SFEC Campaign Consultant Report.

A. SUMMARY This dataset contains a list of active and terminated campaign committees and non-committee campaign finance filers in the Ethics Commission's records database. B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED This dataset comes from an export of the Ethics Commission's filer database. C. UPDATE PROCESS Each night starting at midnight Pacific time a script runs replacing this dataset with a complete list of all filers within the Ethics Commission's filing database. This process can take a variable amount of time to complete. Viewing or downloading this dataset while the update is running may result in incomplete data, therefore it is highly recommended to view or download this data before midnight or after 8am. D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET The "Filer Name" is the most current version of a committee name as registered with the Ethics Commission. Properties suffixed with "-nid" can be used to join the data between Filers, Filings, and Transaction datasets. The California Secretary of State issues "FPPCIds" to committees when registering. After the committee registers with the SOS, the committee can file a courtesy copy of their registration with the Ethics Commission. Until that filing is received, committees' fppcids may appear as "pending". Committees are (generally) only required to register with the Ethics Commission if they participating in local elections. Refer to the Ethics Commission's webpage for more information. RELATED DATASETS,

This dataset will no longer be updated as of March 2024, and is scheduled to be replaced with a new dataset in January of 2025. New filings are available in scanned paper format through the Ethics Commission's public disclosure portal. In 1997, San Francisco voters approved the Regulation of Campaign Consultants Ordinance (“Ordinance”). The Ordinance requires persons who earn $1,000 or more per year for campaign consultant services to register with the Ethics Commission and file quarterly activity reports. The Ordinance defines “campaign consultant” as a person or entity that receives or is promised $1,000 or more in a calendar year for either campaign management or campaign strategy.

A. SUMMARY This dataset contains data from financial statements of state committees that (1) contribute to or (2) receive funds from a San Francisco committee which was Primarily Formed for a local election, or (3) filed a Late Reporting Period statement with the SFEC during the 90 days before an election. The search period for financial statements begins two years before an election and runs through the next semi-annual filing deadline. The dataset currently filters by the elections of 2024-03-05 and 2024-11-05. B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED During an election period, an automated script runs nightly to examine filings by Primarily Formed San Francisco committees. If a primarily formed committee reports accepting money from or giving money to a second committee, that second committee's ID number is added to a filter list. If a committee electronically files a late reporting period form with the San Francisco Ethics Commission, the committee's ID number is also included in the filter list. The filter list is used in a second step that looks for filings by committees that file with the San Francisco Ethics Commission or the California Secretary of State. This dataset shows the committees that file with the California Secretary of State. The data comes from a nightly export of the Secretary of State's database. A second dataset includes Non-Primarily Formed committees that file with the San Francisco Ethics Commission. C. UPDATE PROCESS This dataset is rewritten nightly based on data derived from campaign filings. The update script runs automatically on a timer during the 90 days before an election. Refer to the "Data Last Updated" date in the section "About This Dataset" on the landing page to see when the script last ran successfully. D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET Transactions from all FPPC Form 460 schedules are presented together, refer to the Form Type to differentiate. Transactions with a Form Type of D, E, F, G, H, F496, or F497P2 represent expenditures or money spent by the committee. Transactions with Form Type A, B1, C, I, F496P3, and F497P1 represent receipts or money taken in by the committee. Refer to the instructions for Forms 460, 496, and 497 for more details. Transactions on Form 460 Schedules D, F, G, and H are also reported on Schedule E. When doing summary statistics use care not to double count expenditures. Transactions from FPPC Form 496 and Form 497 filings are also in this dataset. Transactions that were reported on these forms are also reported on the Form 460 at the next filing deadline. If a 460 filing deadline has passed and the committee has filed a campaign statement, transactions on filings from the late reporting period should be disregarded. This dataset only shows transactions from the most recent filing version. Committee's amendments overwrite filings which come before in sequence. Campaign Committees are required to file statements according to a schedule set out by the California Fair Political Practices Commission. Depending on timing, transactions which have occurred may not be listed as they might not have been reported yet. E. RELATED DATASETS

Under S.F. Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code 1.128, a candidate who wishes to accept the voluntary expenditure ceiling must file Form SFEC-128 no later than the deadline for filing nomination papers. In a race where at least one candidate has accepted the VEC, all candidates running for office in the same race must file Form SFEC 134(b) within 24 hours of receiving contributions, making expenditures, or having funds that exceed 100 percent of the applicable VEC.

A. SUMMARY This dataset lists the current campaign filings received by the SFEC; Campaign forms include FPPC forms 410, 450, 460, 461, 465, 470, 496, 497. Refer to the FPPC page for forms represented in this dataset. Filings of the following SFEC forms are also recorded in this dataset:,

This dataset will no longer be updated as of March 2024, and is scheduled to be replaced with a new dataset in January of 2025. New filings are available in scanned paper format through the Ethics Commission's public disclosure portal. Filers must report each political contribution of $100 or more to a candidate for local office, a committee controlled by a local officeholder or a candidate for local office, or a ballot measure committee whether or not the committee is controlled by a local officeholder or a candidate for local office. Filers must report contributions of $100 or more made or delivered by the filer, or made by the filer�۪s client at the filer�۪s behest, or for which the filer acted as an agent or intermediary during the reporting period. This chart indicates the political contributions made by campaign consultants during the reporting period.