| Request that the Board waive a $2,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Rickey A. Jones, a candidate for Sheriff, Tensas Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose EDE-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 139 days late. |
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Rickey Jones request a waiver and states the following:
He believes the point in question for this finding by the Board of Ethics is that he failed to report his poll watchers as an election day expenditure. His 10-G report reflects the day the checks were written to his poll watchers. That date is October 14, 2019. However, this is not the actual date that these checks were hand delivered to his poll watchers. It was several days after that when he made contact with some of them.
Staff notes:
Mr. Jones filed his 10-G report on October 29, 2019. On this report, he disclosed payments to poll watchers. The payments were made on October 14, 2019.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPE OF REPORT: EDE-P
DAYS LATE: 139
ASSESSED FEE: $2,000
REPORT DUE: October 22, 2019
REPORT FILED: March 9, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT: Services of Election Day Workers (Schedule B) for $1,200
OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE
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18:1505.4.A(1) Any candidate, the treasurer or chairman of a political committee, or any other person required to file any reports under this Chapter, who knowingly fails to file or who knowingly fails to timely file any such reports as are required by this Chapter may be assessed a civil penalty for each day until such report is filed.
Section 1205C of the Rules for the Board of Ethics provides that "[i]f a report is filed more than 10 days late and the amount of activity on the report is less than the amount of the late fee to be assessed, the staff may reduce the late fee to the amount of activity or 10 times the per-day penalty, whichever is greater."
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1. Reduce $2,000 late fee to $1,200
2. Suspend all but $420 based on future compliance and payment within 30 days.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Kathleen Allen |
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