2.02.010 Electronic filing of campaign disclosure statements.

Whenever any committee or person is required by the California Political Reform Act (Government Code Section 81000 et seq.) to file a semiannual, pre-election, supplemental pre-election or amendment(s) to a campaign statement with the City Clerk, the committee or person shall file at the same time a copy of the statement in electronic format as prescribed by the City Clerk, provided that the Clerk has prescribed the format at least sixty (60) days before the statement or report is due. (Ord. C-7880 § 1, 2003)

2.02.015 -- Whenever any committee or person is required to file a campaign statement specified in section 2.02.010 above, every such committee or person shall in addition provide a publicly accessible hyperlink on the home page of said committee's or person's campaign website to a publicly accessible website page disclosing all information (including city and zip code but redacting street addresses) required to be disclosed in materials under section 2.02.010. Said webpage accessible information shall be updated and kept current to within ten business days of the person's or committee's latest received contribution (cash or in-kind), loan or expense (cash or in-kind.)

2.02.020 Penalties.

Any committee or person who files an electronic copy of a semiannual, pre-election, supplemental pre-election or amendment(s) to a campaign statement required by this Chapter after the deadline imposed by the California Political Reform Act (California Government Code Section 81000 et seq.) for filing the written copy of such statement shall be liable in an amount determined by the City Council by resolution per day after the deadline, until the electronic copy is filed.

(ORD-10-0014, § 2, 2010; Ord. C-7880 § 1, 2003)

2.02.025 -- Any committee or person whose campaign website fails to comply with the provisions of section 2.02.15 above may be publicly identified by any third person or committee as "non-compliant with the digital campaign transparency requirements of the Long Beach Municipal Code." A person or committee without a campaign website shall not be subject penalties under this section. Any other penalties specified in section 2.02.020 above shall not apply to section 2.02.015 above.

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And to be clear: all candidates for Long Beach elected offices are free to disclose the information sought by the proposed ordinance right now...regardless of whether it is ultimately enacted by a Council majority. Its enactment is intended to induce prompt digital disclosure of updated campaign finance information by candidates unwilling to disclose it without the ordinance.