San Diego County Supervisor Proposes 2-Year Lobbying Ban and Prediction Market Curbs
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Updated · The San Diego Union-Tribune · Aug 12
San Diego County Supervisor Proposes 2-Year Lobbying Ban and Prediction Market Curbs
1 articles · Updated · The San Diego Union-Tribune · Aug 12
Summary
Terra Lawson-Remer wants San Diego County to bar former staff from lobbying the county for private clients for two years and to ban employees from betting on work-related prediction markets.
The proposal follows reporting that the county has no revolving-door restriction, unlike other large California jurisdictions; 10 former county employees were registered lobbyists in June, and seven started within two years of leaving.
Her plan would also require officials to disclose any prediction-market income on state financial forms, though Lawson-Remer said she knows of no county misuse and framed the rule as a preemptive safeguard.
Supervisors are set to take up the package next Wednesday; if they approve it, staff would draft enforcement details before a later vote on a formal ordinance.
The ethics push extends Lawson-Remer’s broader county-governance campaign ahead of a November charter ballot measure, where a lobbying ban was left out because she said it could be enacted more easily by ordinance.