A group of public relations firms that represent politicians have filed a federal suit challenging an expansion of what constitutes lobbying as defined by the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).
The plaintiffs contend that by recently adopting rules requiring public relations firms to disclose outreach activities to news editorial boards as “lobbying,” JCOPE is unlawfully violating their First Amendment rights to speak to the media on matters of public interest.
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