Actions of named registered lobbyists. (More info)

Data Location

https://www.mec.mo.gov/EthicsWeb/Lobbying/Lob_SearchPubOff.aspx

Comments

Data set is statewide for state and local offices. No licensing information is provided.

Some metadata is available in the Lobbyist FAQ at https://www.mec.mo.gov/WebDocs/PDF/Lobbyist/LobbyistFAQs.pdf In particular, lobbyist expense reports are published on the first day of the following month. So the April 2014 reports would be published on June 1, 2014. Must search by year and specific public official. Cannot access all activity for a political subdivision at once. Results are displayed in HTML only with no API available and additional clicks required to view detail. Data would have to be copy-pasted from html; scrapping would be difficult due to use of javascript postbacks. Data includes lobbyist, principal, date of expenditure and description of expenditure. Descriptions range greatly in detail. Reports of individual lobbyists are accessed separately at https://www.mec.mo.gov/EthicsWeb/Lobbying/Lob_SearchLobDisplay.aspx

Data Availability

• ? Openly licensed
• Y Is the data available for free
• N Is the data machine readable
• Y Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis
• N Available in bulk
• Y Publicly available
• Y Is the data available online
• Y Does the data exist
• Y Is data in digital form

Details

Date the data became available	2001
Format of data	HTML
Reviewer	Brett Lord-Castillo
Submitters	Brett Lord-Castillo
Last modified	Tue Jul 29 2014 15:58:53 GMT+0000 (UTC)