Office of Government Ethics (OGE)

Official site: https://www.oge.gov

What This Site Is

OGE.gov is the federal government's central site for ethics rules and ethics-related records for executive-branch officials and federal agencies. It shows what ethics rules federal officials are required to follow, what financial disclosures certain senior officials must file, how conflicts of interest are supposed to be handled, and how federal agencies manage ethics compliance. OGE.gov acts as a rulebook and record cabinet for government ethics — it provides transparency into how ethics systems work, but it is not an investigative or enforcement database.

What You Can Do Here

  • Look up public ethics and financial disclosure documents for certain senior federal officials
  • Review ethics oversight and compliance documents for federal agencies
  • Read official federal ethics rules, laws, and guidance
  • Understand what information is public, restricted, or legally protected from misuse

Start Here (Pick What You're Looking For)

If you want to...

  • Look up an individual official's ethics or financial disclosure documents → Click Find an individual's ethics document (you must agree not to misuse records before viewing)
  • Find ethics oversight or compliance documents about a federal agency → Click Find an agency's ethics program document (includes program reviews, oversight correspondence, annual questionnaires)
  • Understand federal ethics rules → Click Find the ethics rules (leads to ethics statutes, regulations, Executive Orders, and OGE legal advisories)

How This Page Works

  1. Decide whether you are researching: a person (individual disclosures), an agency (ethics oversight), or the rules themselves
  2. Start from Resources for the Public
  3. Choose the correct collection: Officials' Individual Disclosures, Agency Ethics Documents, or Legal Research / Ethics Rules
  4. Accept any required legal warnings before viewing documents
  5. Use filters (name, agency, year, document type) to narrow results
  6. Open a document to view details or instructions to request it

Common Things to Search For

  • An official's public financial disclosure
  • Ethics agreements or ethics pledge waivers
  • Certificates of Divestiture
  • Agency ethics program reviews
  • Ethics rules or conflict-of-interest guidance
  • OGE Form 278e (financial disclosure) or 278-T (transaction reports)

Good to Know

  • Many public financial disclosure records are not permanent — federal law requires most to be destroyed after a set number of years unless tied to an investigation
  • Some documents cannot be downloaded directly and must be requested
  • OGE's internal filing systems are not public portals
  • If a record isn't available here, you may need to contact the agency directly or use FOIA
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