| Request that the Board waive the $320 campaign finance late fee assessed against Willie Brooks, a candidate for Chief of Police, City of Baker, West Baton Rouge Parish, in the July 11, 2020 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 8 days late. |
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Willie Brooks requests a waiver and states the following:
His financial manager took a job in Florida assuming that everything was closed, and no more information was needed. He has been a law enforcement officer for 15 years. He has been going through a great deal as an essential worker and has been praying that he doesn't take COVID-19 home to his wife and small children. He has been tested 3 times already for COVID. Please suspend this amount so he doesn't have to use any of his earned income to pay it off. It's an error that was overlooked and he apologizes.
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ELECTION: July 11, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 8
ASSESSED FEE: $320
REPORTS DUE: August 5, 2020
REPORTS FILED: August 13, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT: $849.47 in Receipts; $1390.77 in Expenditures; $-0 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
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.
18:1495.4D(1) If the final report of a candidate for an election, as required by Paragraph (5), (6), or (7)of Subsection B of this Section, shows a deficit or a surplus, the candidate and his treasurer, if any, shall file supplemental reports with the supervisory committee of all information required in R.S. 18:1495.5. Such reports shall be filed annually no later than February fifteenth and shall be complete through the preceding December thirty-first. Such a supplemental report shall be filed each year until a report has been filed which shows no deficit and until any surplus campaign funds have been disposed of in accordance with R.S. 18:1505.2(I). The report on surplus funds shall disclose the disbursement of such funds in the same manner as expenditures are reported.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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