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Ordinance enacting the San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code, Articles I - V, to: consolidate City laws regulating election campaigns, lobbying, the conduct of governmental officials and employees, and protection of whistleblowers who report improper government activity; conform these laws to the Charter provisions creating the Ethics Commission; clarify that whistleblowers are protected from retaliation for filing complaints with, providing information to, cooperating with, or participating in a proceeding of the Ethics Commission; clarify the procedures for investigating complaints of improper government activity; clarify that persons who unlawfully retaliate against whistleblowers are subject to administrative penalties as well as possible discipline and civil penalties; provide statutes of limitations; add legislative findings; require that the Ethics Commission submit an annual rather than semiannual report to the Board of Supervisors regarding complaints made by whistleblowers; and repealing Administrative Code Sections 16.5, 16.400 - 16.404, 16.501 - 16.519, 16.520 - 16.531, 16.535 - 16.539, 16.540 - 16.547, 16.548-1 - 16.548-6, 16.980, and 58.1 - 58.600.
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