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Open Law Tools (Code) Open Lawmaking Tools (Legislative Data) Supportive Policies Supportive Organizations
AmLegal Decoder, AmericaDecoded (redeploying StateDecoded across the U.S.) AskThem (representative contact information and crowdsourced city council agenda Q&A) New York City passed a resolution amending their City Council Rules to make all proposed ordinances and associated legislative information available openly through an online database and passed an amendment to the New York city charter requiring that all public meetings be webcast. Congressional Data Coalition
OpenLawDC (made DCCode.org) Councilmatic (Chicago, Philadelphia) San Francisco introduced a motion that called for all ordinances and all relevant legal information be made available online in machine-readable formats consistent with their open data policy. Civic Hackers and Legal Hackers (e.g. Councilmatic, OpenLawDC, StateDecoded)
Public.Resource.Org and YesWeScan (code scanned online ready for parsing, see if your jurisdiction is up and openly licensed) Democracy Map (U.S. representative information by Civic Agency) Civic Impulse (GovTrack.us)
WebLaws.org (cloud-based statute processing pipeline for updating state code) Open Civic Data (a standard schema for open structured legislative information, with identifiers that power Google's Civic Information API) Cornell LII
Open States & API (open structured state legislative information) Open Gov Foundation (AmLegal Decoder, AmericaDecoded; Madison)
Madison (public annotation for laws in process) Open Legal Code
Represent Civic Information API (Canadian representative information) Open North (Represent Civic Information API)
the /unitedstates project (open federal legislative information powering the work of the Sunlight Foundation tools, GovTrack.us, the New York Times, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and more) Opening Parliament
Public.Resource.Org (YesWeScan)
Sunlight Foundation (Open Civic Data, Open States, OpenCongress; Open Data Policy Guidelines)
*for open case law see: Free Law Project (CourtListener), Oyez
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