Oakland school board director faces up to $95,000 in ethics penalties

Oakland Unified school board director Mike Hutchinson is facing 19 ethics violations over his failure to file campaign finance disclosures for his unsuccessful 2016 campaign for the school board, the city’s ethics commission has found. He could face nearly $100,000 in fines, an unusually large penalty.

Hutchinson was elected to the school board in 2020, but had two unsuccessful runs before that, in 2012 and 2016. According to a report prepared by the commission’s enforcement chief, he failed to file a key disclosure form, called Form 460, for his 2016 campaign. City records show that Hutchinson’s 2016 campaign only submitted various incomplete versions of the Form 410, which candidates and committees file to set up their campaign accounts.

As Hutchinson hasn’t yet closed the campaign