§ 23-148. Procedural requirements for filing of financial disclosure statements.

(a)

The financial disclosure statement shall include a certification by the person required to file the statement that said person has filed his federal and state income tax returns, or has filed for an extension of time for filing such tax returns.

(b)

The financial disclosure statement shall be filed with the parish attorney and shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the person filing it certifying that the information contained in the statement is true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief.

(c)

The financial disclosure statement shall be a public record, subject to the provisions of Chapter 1 of Title 44 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and the following provisions:

(1)

Privacy, safety and security requests.

a.

Any person required to file a financial disclosure statement as required by this division may, at the time the financial disclosure statement is filed or at any time thereafter, except at any time after a request for inspection of the statement has been filed with the parish attorney, submit a request to the parish attorney to withhold from public inspection any item or items disclosed therein on the grounds that disclosure of the item or items would constitute an unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the person required to file or would cause a risk to the safety or security to the person required to file or to any other person.

b.

The parish attorney shall evaluate each such request, and shall consider the following factors in such evaluation:

1.

whether the item is privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure by any applicable law or judicial precedent;

2.

whether the item is of a highly personal nature;

3.

whether the item relates in any way to the duties of the positions held by the person required to file and whether or not issues of safety or security as it relates to those duties may be affected by disclosure of any such item.

4.

whether the disclosure of the item may pose a safety or security risk to the person required to file or to any other person(s); and

5.

whether the item involves an actual or potential conflict of interest or other ethical breach by the person required to file.

c.

Upon a finding by the parish attorney that the disclosure to the public or the inspection by the public of any item would constitute an unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the person required to file or would cause a risk to the safety or security to the person required to file or to any other person, such item shall be withheld from public inspection and shall not be disclosed to the public.

d.

Any information regarding any financial interest of the spouse or unemancipated child of a person required to file in which the person required to file has no financial interest shall not be subject to public disclosure or inspection as an unwarranted invasion of privacy unless the parish attorney, after considering all factors under section 23-148(c)(1)b. herein, determines that such information involves an actual or potential conflict of interest or other ethical breach on the part of the person required to file.

e.

Regardless of whether or not a person required to file has submitted a request to the parish attorney to withhold from public inspection any item or items in said person's financial disclosure statement, the parish attorney may, upon his or her own initiative withhold any item items in the statement from public disclosure or inspection if the parish attorney finds that such disclosure or inspection would constitute a risk to the safety or security of the person required to file.

f.

The provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of section 23-148 herein shall be applicable to any amendment to a financial disclosure statement which may be filed by a person required to file.

(Ord. No. 23831, § 1, 6-9-10)