The agency that sets rules for lobbying New York state government wants to consolidate all rules and advisory opinions in the same place for the first time, and enhance disclosure requirements for the $243 million-a year industry.
Seth Agata, director of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE), said the new guidelines would allow rule makers to capture more information about lobbyists’ activities, including the interests of funders when lobbyists are hired by third parties. The guidelines also track lobbyists’ use of social media.”These regulations will ensure that the public has access to more and better information about the people and entities behind those attempts at influencing decisions that affect us all,” Agata said in a statement.
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