General Information: Financial Disclosure Statements
What is a Financial Disclosure Statement?
A Financial Disclosure Statement is a document which contains financial and professional information about the public employee filer, their spouse, and their unemancipated children.
What is the purpose of Financial Disclosure?
Financial Disclosure provides transparency about the private interests and activities of public officials allowing for the identification of potential conflicts of interest between an official’s personal affairs and an official’s public duties.
Who must file a Financial Disclosure?
Suffolk County elected officials, chairs of County political parties, County agency heads, specific County commissions and local public authorities, as well as certain County employees must file a financial disclosure statement by May 15th every year.
In addition, candidates for County elected office must file a financial disclosure statement within a certain time period after the filing of their designating petitions. If you are a candidate, please call the Board’s office for more information and specific dates.
Are Financial Disclosure Statements Confidential?
Suffolk County Financial Disclosure Statements are considered "public documents." This means that the Board must produce a financial disclosure statement if a member of the public requests it. However, certain information is "redacted" or blacked out before it is produced. For information on what is redacted prior to production see Board of Ethics Privacy Policy (Board Policy No. 1-2022).