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Plans for improving and expanding CFB's investigative and auditing operations
3:41:34
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Director Paul Seamus Ryan outlines plans for improving and expanding the Campaign Finance Board's (CFB) investigative and auditing operations, emphasizing a commitment to more efficient and timely processes.
- CFB is examining every aspect of its operations to identify areas for improvement
- Plans include building out a larger investigations operation
- The agency aims to conduct more real-time investigations during election cycles
- Changes to the auditing process include issuing initial document requests immediately after the June primary for candidates not in the general election
- The agency is reexamining and pressure testing every step of the auditing and enforcement processes
- CFB is looking to add more resources and build out capacity where it makes sense to do so
Paul Seamus Ryan
3:41:34
I'll say this, as during my first year on the job I committed myself to examining every aspect of the campaign finance board's operations to prioritize the hiring of a first deputy to help lead us in this assessment and evaluation of all of our processes and tools and approaches to this work.
3:41:53
And we will be building out an even larger investigations operation in the coming months and year than the agency has had in its past.
3:42:03
It's one of many areas that think we can do a better job, a faster job.
3:42:13
Yes, and even, and it goes for auditing generally, pulling up more of the auditing processes themselves into real time pre election or immediately post election.
3:42:24
For example, one of the ways that we're taking a big step to speed up our audits is to issue our IDRs, our initial document requests, immediately after the June primary for candidates who are not in the general election.
3:42:36
That's a major change in practice for the agency.
3:42:38
Historically the agency has waited until after the November general election to send out any IDR.
3:42:44
So every step of the process in our, the auditing process is so integrated with our enforcement, investigation and enforcement process.
3:42:53
Every step of it we are reexamining, we're pressure testing, we're looking for efficiencies, we're building out, adding more resources and building out capacity where it makes sense to do so.
3:43:01
Right.
Lincoln Restler
3:42:09
Better job, faster job in real time during the election cycle of getting to the bottom of issues.