How Open Is Government?

Open records laws in North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Missouri and Indiana provide the best access to members of the public requesting records, according to new findings compiled by University of Florida researchers. The Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project is building a database of open meetings and open records law summaries from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It ranks state laws and then puts the comparisons on the Internet, with appropriate summaries and citations.

http://www.citizenaccess.org/

Legislative History of the Civil Rights Commission

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee released a report on the Legislative History of the Civil Rights Commission. The 566 page report is in .pdf format, so you'll need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. Included are

• Committee Reports
• Congressional Record
• Court Opinions
• Legislation
• News Articles

http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/civilrights.pdf

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