Under a provision of the 2018 omnibus appropriations act that was passed by Congress and signed by the President earlier this month, all non-confidential Congressional Research Service reports must be made publicly available online within …
Data & Databases
All WI Attorney General Opinions Now on DOJ website
Earlier this month, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel tweeted that every Wisconsin Attorney General opinion is now available on the DOJ website. The opinions are browsable by year since 1912 and available in PDF. Hat …
It's Not Science Fiction, It's a New Way to Search
Here in law library-land, we’re all familiar with the concept of “citation chasing”- i.e., finding one good on-point article and then mining its citations, footnotes, and citing sources for other relevant articles. But what if …
Access LLMC Digital Remotely With Your Wisconsin State Law Library Card
LLMC Digital is a searchable archive of historical primary legal sources for Wisconsin, the United States, and other jurisdictions. Wisconsin materials included in LLMC’s collections include historical Wisconsin reports, session laws, and statutes. A large …
Arrest Data Analysis Tool Available from Bureau of Justice Statistics
Established in 1949, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the United States’ primary source for criminal justice statistics. BJS publishes many reports such as the seminal Crime in the United States as well as …
New Tool Compares County Criminal Justice Statistics for Wisconsin and Other States
Earlier this week, the nonprofit Measures for Justice launched an amazing new data portal “to assess and compare the criminal justice process from arrest to post-conviction on a county-by-county basis. The data set comprises measures …
WI DOJ Launches Attorney General Opinion Archive
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has recently launched an archive of formal Attorney General opinions. The opinions, in PDF, are available from the first bound volume of opinions in 1912 to the present. Note that …
WI Historical Society Preserves Text from Scrubbed DNR & other Government Websites
Last month the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that “the state Department of Natural Resources recently scrubbed language from an agency web page on the Great Lakes that said humans and greenhouse gases are the main …
Lexis.com retiring from Law Schools on December 31
It’s the end of an era as Lexis.com, the long-running and highly regarded database says its final goodbyes to the Law School community. With 100% of Lexis content now migrated to Lexis Advance, the small …
New Site Aims to Make Every CRS Report Publicly Available Online
If you’ve ever tried looking for a CRS Report, you know that they can be very difficult to track down. A new site called everyCRSreport.com is hoping to make them more publicly accessible online. Currently …