Is it possible to identify individuals with missing financial disclosures?

[hancush]

That's a story in and of itself! Can we tell from the scrape (or data in the portal) who should file a disclosure, but hasn't?

[fgregg]

According to the Secretary of State's website three groups are required to file disclosures:

1. A person holding a legislative or statewide office
2. A candidate for legislative or statewide office
3. A state agency head, an official whose appointment to a board or commission is subject to confirmation by the senate, a member of the insurance nominating committee or a member of the state ethics commission.

We should have a list of the first two groups because they would have also made campaign finance disclosures. The third group would probably require some shoe leather to identify all the individuals.

[fgregg]

if i was doing this, i would probably start with sitting elected representatives and senators.

[hancush]

@fgregg Is the scraped data a list of all people who have filed disclosures, or is it a list of all people who should file disclosures, i.e., we could left join the list of filers with filings to see who hasn't filed?

[fgregg]

it's people who have filed a disclosure. so, unfortunately, no left join is possible.