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.

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.

This dataset provides the monetary contribution souce data for the campaign finance explorer app at https://data.sfgov.org/campaign_finance.
Learn more about San Francisco campaign finance at https://sfethics.org.
Data comes from campaign filings with the San Francisco Ethics Commission, specifically FPPC Form 460 Schedule A and FPPC Form 497 filings for committees formed to support or oppose candidates and ballot measures in the November 3, 2020 election.

Under section 3.234(a)(1) of the San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code, no former officer or employee of the City and County of San Francisco may make communications before any court or public agency in connection with any particular matter in which the City is a party or has a direct and substantial interest, in which the former officer or employee participated personally and substantially, and which involved specific parties at the time of such participation. Under section 3.234(a)(2), no current or former officer or employee may, for one year after termination of service or employment, communicate with his or her former department to influence a government decision on behalf of any other person. Under section 3.234(a)(3), no current or former officer or employee may be employed by or otherwise receive compensation from a person or entity that entered into a contract with the city within the past 12 months where the officer or employee personally and substantially participated in the award of the contract. Under section 3.234(c)(1), the Ethics Commission may waive the restrictions in subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) if the Commission determines that granting a waiver would not create the potential for undue influence or unfair advantage. Under section 3.234(c)(2), the Commission may grant a waiver from the restrictions in subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) for members of City boards and commissions who, by law, must be appointed to represent any profession, trade, business union or association. Under section 3.234(c)(3), the Commission may waive the ban in subsection (a)(3) if the Commission determines that imposing the restriction would cause extreme hardship for the City officer or employee. This is a table of the waivers that have been granted under section 3.234(c).

This is a directory of lobbyists registered with the Ethics Commission. Learn more
about the lobbyist program at the SF
Ethics Commission website. Contact and Expenditure Lobbyists both show up in this
dataset. Lobbyists active only prior to 2018 were not required to file a "Registration"
type statement, and will not appear in this dataset. Those lobbyist's filings and
activities will still appear in the corresponding lobbyst datasets.

Lobbyists are required to register and file regular statements with the Ethics Commission.
This dataset is updated with the lobbyist filings. The live
lobbyist system can be accessed as well.

This dataset is updated with a sync script that checks nightly for new filings. Lobbyists are required to register and file monthly statements.

Only the most recent firm for a lobbyist is displayed.

Campaign consultants must report economic consideration promised to or received by the filer during the reporting period from vendors and sub-vendors who provide campaign-related goods or services to the filer�۪s current clients.

A. SUMMARY
This dataset shows activity reported by registered lobbyists on their monthly statements. Learn more about the lobbyist program at the SF Ethics Commission website.
Activities from both Contact and Expenditure lobbyists are combined in this dataset.

B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED
Lobbyists are required to register with the Ethics Commission and file monthly statements reporting their activity.

C. UPDATE PROCESS
Data from the lobbyist system is synched nightly to DataSF. If any filings have been accepted since the last update, the sync reflects new activity on those filings.

D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET
Activities are self reported by lobbyists on monthly statements. All types of activities are reflected on this dataset, please refer to the SF Ethics Commission website to learn more about the lobbyist program.
Refer to the "related content using this data" section below for links to filtered views by activity type, which limit the visible columns and may be more useful for analysis.

Campaign Finance - Public Funds Disbursed

Under section 3.234(a)(1) of the San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code, no former officer or employee of the City and County of San Francisco may make communications before any court or public agency in connection with any particular matter in which the City is a party or has a direct and substantial interest, in which the former officer or employee participated personally and substantially, and which involved specific parties at the time of such participation. Under section 3.234(a)(2), no current or former officer or employee may, for one year after termination of service or employment, communicate with his or her former department to influence a government decision on behalf of any other person. Under section 3.234(a)(3), no current or former officer or employee may be employed by or otherwise receive compensation from a person or entity that entered into a contract with the city within the past 12 months where the officer or employee personally and substantially participated in the award of the contract. Under section 3.234(c)(1), the Ethics Commission may waive the restrictions in subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) if the Commission determines that granting a waiver would not create the potential for undue influence or unfair advantage. Under section 3.234(c)(2), the Commission may grant a waiver from the restrictions in subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) for members of City boards and commissions who, by law, must be appointed to represent any profession, trade, business union or association. Under section 3.234(c)(3), the Commission may waive the ban in subsection (a)(3) if the Commission determines that imposing the restriction would cause extreme hardship for the City officer or employee. This is a table of the waivers that have been granted under section 3.234(c).