Dataset
Municipal Lobbying
The Lobbyist Registration and Regulation Ordinance aims: - to promote good governance and ensure transparency in government by requiring registration and disclosure of lobbying activities; - to create fairness and consistency by applying the sames rules to all persons engaged in lobbying…
Dataset
- Publisher
- City Clerk
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 21
- Keywords
- Lobbying, client, entity, influence, lobbyist, ordinance, registration, reporting, soliciting
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/municipal-lobbying
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 2869015 | 9102b343f9f119cd110526121423f0150b287bbcc3a2f5e5676e94da9002bded | source |
| CSV | referenced | 29320 | 85a3d401607cd3b7eedc32988be63f8f727fa5ccb24f119b63a82d8e4dfb8ea8 | source |
| referenced | 398752 | 1b3792a0ad256016c037e550180a902cadb9a5a43664d00b6926f3a0545efd72 | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
CCL # | text | |
Category | text | |
Full Name | text | |
Add Date | text | |
Year | text | |
Quarter | text | |
Quarter Activity | text | |
Type | text | |
Contribution Date | text | |
Contribution Amount | text | |
Recipient Name | text | |
Incumbent/Candidate | text | |
Lobbyist/Client Name | text | |
Lobbyist/Client CCL | text | |
Subject Name | text | |
Subject Type | text | |
Support Oppose | text | |
Support Oppose Statement | text | |
Issue Description | text | |
Incurred or Paid | text | |
Amount | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:municipal-lobbying
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/municipal-lobbying
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/municipal-lobbying.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- municipal-lobbying
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |