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The Senate confirmed a new director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics which has been without one for more than a year. David Huitema, a State Department ethics official, will serve a [...]

Voters will decide on two ethics-related ballot measures, Charter Amendment ER and Measure G, this November. The county of Los Angeles wants to create its first ethics commission, and the city [...]

Effective January 1, 2025, corporations and individuals are permitted to contribute $15,000 to candidates and $30,000 to PACs or political parties per election cycle. All political committees [...]

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman dismissed a lawsuit filed against Austin’s campaign finance rule that says a candidate cannot raise more than $47,000 from outside city limits during an [...]

California recently passed two pieces of legislation (SB1181, SB1243) that made a number of changes to its pay-to-play law (Section 84308). These updates will take effect January 1, 2025. [...]

Effective October 30th, city employees and officials are prohibited from soliciting gifts. The amendment also adds associations representing counties or municipal corporations to the donor list [...]

Effective September 28, 2024, registered lobbyists are prohibited from making any campaign contributions to the mayor or a mayoral candidate in Chicago. The contribution ban extends to business [...]

            The Sixth Circuit lifted an injunction barring enforcement of Ohio’s recently passed ban on non-citizen contributions to ballot measures and candidates on Tuesday.  The law is [...]

Two weeks after a California bill restricting the use of political deepfakes was signed into law, a federal judge temporarily blocked it, writing that it likely violates the First Amendment.

Governor Newsom passed a series of laws targeting election deepfakes that will require labels on political advertisements generated by AI and social media platforms to block deceptive content [...]