Political ads express notification requirement in California state, USA

California committees that are required by California Government Code § 84504.6 (2018) to provide express notification to online platforms before purchasing "online platform disclosed advertisements" related to either California candidates for elected office or California ballot measures must (1) expressly notify Google and submit additional information about themselves for our Political Advertising Transparency Report and in-ad disclosures via the "Why this ad" icon, and (2) verify their account. Learn more about Google's election advertising policy.

Important! Before completing this form, please be sure that you have also successfully verified your account via this process.

By submitting this form, we will consider all current and future active ads in your account to be in scope of this policy, and may include them in our transparency report and add "Paid for by" disclosures via the "Why this ad" icon. Please note that after completing this form, you may not have access to certain ad formats.

If your account has already successfully completed this form, submitting the form again will fully replace your previously submitted information as it appears in ad disclosures and the transparency report. Each time you complete this form you should indicate each race or ballot measure for which you have or plan to run ads. Updates to your disclosure name will appear in your ads within 5 business days.

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Partner ID *

Advertiser ID *

Name of the California committee that paid for the ad(s) in the Partner ID you provided *

This information will appear in our Political Advertising Transparency Report.

Identification Number of the California committee *

This information will appear in our Political Advertising Transparency Report and "paid for by" disclosures.

Disclosure name of the California committee *

This information will appear in "paid for by" disclosures.

Address of the California committee *

This information will appear in "Paid for by" disclosures.

California Committee treasurer *

This information will appear in "paid for by" disclosures.

Please tell us if your ads refer to California candidate races or ballot measures. This information will appear in our Political Advertising Transparency Report. *

Select candidate races, ballot measures, or both.

California candidate races

California ballot measures

Name of the California candidate to which your ad(s) refer(s) *

Name of the elected office to which your ad(s) refer(s) *

Name of the California ballot measure to which your ad(s) refer(s) *

Name of the jurisdiction to which your ad(s) refer(s) *

Attestations *

By filling out this form, I acknowledge that I am expressly notifying Google that I wish to run ads in scope of California Government Code § 84504.6 and agree that Google can use the information I provide to comply with its obligations under that same law. *

I agree that the information submitted in this form may apply to any current or future ads associated with my account, including public disclosure of that information as described in California Government Code § 84504.6 and the Google Election Advertising Terms as described in the form for U.S. election ads and U.S. political affiliation in personalized ads verification. *

I agree that this information is correct and will provide Google updated information through this form if any of this information changes. *

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