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Agenda Item
Docket No. 22-259
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive the $600, $420 and $540 campaign finance late fees assessed against Aldine Lockett, unsuccessful candidate for Member of School Board, District 2, Orleans Parish, in the November 3, 2020, whose 30-P, 10-P and 10-G campaign finance disclosure reports were filed 17, 7 and 9 days late, respectively.
Facts:
Aldine Lockett requests a waiver and states the following:

He felt passionate that the students and citizens of New Orleans deserved an experienced and highly credential advocate to work tirelessly within the school board to ensure that all students received a fair and equitable education. He ran independently with no funds. He is unjustly being fined for not reporting campaign finances in a timely manner. He filled out the forms online at one time because he had no funds. He truly thought that the reports were filed all at once when he was in the hospital with his wife.

Comments:
ELECTION: November 3, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P, 10-P & 10-G
DAYS LATE: 17, 7 & 9
ASSESSED FEE: $600, $420 & $540
REPORTS DUE: October 5, 2020; October 26, 2020 and November 25, 2020
REPORTS FILED: October 22, 2020; November 2, 2020 and December 4, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT: 30-P $-0 in Receipt; $-0 in Expenditures and $-0 Funds on Hand at Close of Reporting Period
10-P: $-0 in Receipts; $-0 in Expenditures and $-0 Funds on Hand at Close of Reporting Period


10-G: $-0 in Receipts; $-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.

LAC 52:1205(C) states if 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.


Recommendations:
Decline to waive.
Assigned Attorney: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2022-259 - Wiaver Request for Aldine Locket 30-P 10-P 10-G 11/30/2020 election
2022-259 - 10-P 2022-259 CF Waiver Request Aldine Lockett
2022-259 - 10-G 2022-259 CF Waiver Request Aldine Lockett
2022-259 - WR Documentation Request