 In December 2007, Leppert released his ethics plan that would ban city council members from accepting free tickets to events, and modernize the city's campaign finance disclosure system by creating a searchable, online campaign finance database and requiring electronic filing of campaign finance reports for political candidates in the city.In March 2008, the city council approved Leppert's electronic campaign finance filing system proposal.In November 2009, the city council passed a series of four ethics reforms championed by Leppert that