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Agenda Item
Docket No. 21-305
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $600 campaign finance late fee assessed against Karelia R. Stewart a candidate for District Judge, 1st Judicial District Court, ES 1, Div. D, Caddo Parish, in the November 3, 2020 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 8 days late.
Facts:
Karelia R. Stewart requests a waiver and states the following:

The late filing was due to a family emergency and other circumstances due to the COVID- 19 outbreak. She did not realize she missed the deadline until they had a COVID19 protocol meeting regarding policy for Judges. She immediately called campaign finance and was assisted with filing her report. She was unopposed and the deadline got away from her with all that was going on with her husband and multiple COVID diagnosis in her workplace.


Comments:
ELECTION: November 3, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 10
ASSESSED FEE: $600
REPORTS DUE: October 5, 2020
REPORTS FILED: October 15, 2020


ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 in Receipt; $-0 in Expenditures and $-0 Funds on Hand at Close of Reporting Period


OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE


Law:
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.

Recommendations:
Decline to waive.


Assigned Attorney: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2021-305 - CF Waiver Request Karelia R. Stewart 30-P