New Alabama law will make it easier to track campaign funds for city candidates
Updated 1:08 PM;
Alabama is changing the way candidates for city offices report to the public who gave to their campaigns and how they used the money.
Gov. Kay Ivey has signed into law a bill that requires municipal candidates to file their campaign finance reports electronically with the secretary of state’s office. Municipal candidates now file paper reports with their county probate judge.
The electronic reports go in a searchable data base on the secretary of state’s website.
The change starts Aug. 1, 2023, Secretary of State John Merrill’s office said in a press release.