Jeremia Kimelman
From: Spike <ssp...@codeforamerica.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:58 PM
Subject: campaign finance launch
To: fuzz <fu...@codeforamerica.org>
The app allows a user to view a candidate’s campaign finance data in a simple display of summary information, such as the total amount of contributions received, number of contributions given to each candidate, and the average size of each contribution compared with other candidates. It also allows the viewer to see detailed information for each candidate, such as the total amount of expenditures made, the source of the candidate’s top contributors, and a list of contributors to that candidate. With another click, the voter can view information about the contributor as well. The site, which is being released as a Beta version, incorporates mayoral candidate data now but will expand to other local candidates and committees going forward.
Detailed campaign finance disclosure is required by the California Political Reform Act, and in Oakland, candidates must file this information electronically per the Oakland Campaign Finance Reform Act, which was amended by City Council in March 2013 to require electronic reporting. Currently, the data goes into Netfile, the City’s contracted vendor for campaign finance and conflict-of-interest data collection, and is made available to the public on the Netfile portal, which allows for searching and export of a CSV/Excel file. We've had to build a process that scrapes the Form 460 PDFs and then gets processed into a Socrata data store - the team originally built an ETL on a virtual machine running under a staffers desk computer, which then got support from the city IT who rewrote the scripts for a windows environment- it now runs on a cloud instance automatically. Great progress on small details - yes Dave Guarino had his hand in this...
San Jose forked it and released a version, they're now working on their own v2.
http://opendisclosure.io
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