See Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) for information specific to Kansas.
Freedom of Information Act
- Access to Government Information In the United States, Congressional Research Service, Updated March 2008.
- Your Right To Federal Records: Questions and Answers on the Freedom of Information Act
and Privacy Act, GSA, May 2006. - Sunshine Review: Your source for government transparency. A project of the Sam Adams Alliance. Sunshine blogs by state.
- WikiFOIA: The wiki for helping people understand and use the Freedom of Information Act at the state and local level
- U.S. Department of Justice:
- Principal FOIA Contacts at Federal Agencies
- Annual FOIA Reports, FY08 for Federal Departments and Agencies
- Annual FOIA Reports: FY98 through FY08
- Open Government Guide published by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- National Freedom of Information Coalition: FOI Center, Federal FOI Resources
- Government Attic: “Rummaging in the governments attic”
Aircraft
Charities
- Internal Revenue Service Search for Charities
- Search for Charities, IRS Publication 78
Congress
- OpenCongress
- Contacting the Congress
- THOMAS: legislative information from the Library of Congress
- Franking: You must go in person to the Cannon House Office Building to view franking records for members of the House.
... Our office provides self-serve access to public disclosure records of the U.S. House of Representatives. All files created January 3, 1996, and after are available for public review and photocopying. These files also include materials that incurred printing costs but are not mass mailings such as, posters, congratulatory letters, etc.
Unfortunately, the Legislative Resource Center (LRC) cannot process your request for in-house assistance at this time. If you wish to review these files, please feel free to visit our office located in B-106 of the Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C. The LRC is open Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Photocopies are ten cents per page.
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Legislative Resource Center
Office of the Clerk
U.S. House of Representatives
- Expenditures by members of House: See “Statement of Disbursements of the House” at the Legislative Resource Center, or at a regional Federal Depository Library.
Corporations
DE ($) • KS • MA • MO • TX ($)
Economics
- U.S. Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts
Elections
- Ballotpedia: free, collaborative, online encylopedia about ballots, ballot measures, ballot access, petition drives, recall, the laws the govern ballot measures, rules about voting, school bond elections, local ballot measures and state legislatures. A project of the Sam Adams Alliance.
Farm Subsidies
- Farm Subsidy Database
- Environmental Working Group Farm Bill 2007 Policy Analysis Database
FBI
Federal Depository Library Program
Federal Spending
- USAspending.gov is a relaunch of FedSpending.org
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Audits
Intelligence
- CIA Freedom of Information Act Annual Report: 2008 FOIA Electronic Reading Room
Judges and Courts
- Judgepedia: An encyclopedia about judges and courts. A project of the Sam Adams Alliance.
- Center for Public Integrity: Judge’s Disclosure
- Alt Law Beta — the free legal search engine
- PACER Service Center: Federal Court Filings, including bankruptcies
Labor Statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Databases, Tables & Calculators
Labor Unions
- Union Facts: The Center for Union Facts has gathered a wealth of information about the size, scope, political activities, and criminal activity of the labor movement in the United States of America.
- U.S. Department of Labor
- Union Reports, Other Reports, and Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Union or Trust Search. LM-2 forms are the financial paperwork every Union is required to file with the federal government.
- Labor Unions. Pro-union site.
Miscellaneous
- National Technical Information Service
- National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) Database Library from Investigative Reporters and Editors
Non-Profits
- Order Exempt Organization (EO) Returns (IRS 990s) from the IRS
- GuideStar.org: IRS 990s for non-profits (free, but must register)
- Foundation Center: Search
- Capital Research Center: Search CRC Database of Non-Profits, Grantmakers, Publications. “Guide to Nonprofit Advocacy” by CRC’s James Dellinger.
- TaxExemptWorld: Tax Exempt & NonProfit Organization Information Center
- impluCorporation: Non-profits
Political Money
- Federal Election Commission Electronic Filing Report Retrieval
- FEC Disclosure Reports and FEC FTP Site
- Internal Revenue Service 527 PAC Search: See IRS 8871 filings with organization information [e.g., 527 PACs and 501(c)4s], or IRS 8872 filings with political contributions and expenditures. Download entire database of 8871 and 8872 forms submitted electronically.
- OpenSecrets.org: Individual and soft money contributors
- Center for Public Integrity: Search by individual or by company or group
- NewsMeat: campaign donor search engine
Politics
- Green Tracking Library: Tracking forces that destroy the world to save the earth.
- Political Graveyard: The web site that tells where the dead politicians are buried
Population
- U.S. Census Bureau population datasets: national, state, county
Securities and Exchange
- Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR Company Search
State Information
- Center for Public Integrity:
- National Freedom of Information Coalition: State Resources
- Public Employee Salary information by state from the Sunshine Review
- States ranked by total state taxes: 2008 from U.S. Census Bureau
