Related Internet Links Government | Law Government Resources Albany County http://www.albanycounty.com/ Is the official county site. There are pages for departments, the legislature, civil service, etc. Attorney General, Office of the - http://www.oag.state.ny.us/ This site includes information on a wide variety of subjects, from crime to telecommunications. There are guides for victims of stalkers, information on sex offenders, clinical trials, health care complaints, and much more. BRB's Free Resource Center - http://www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp The publsiher of reference materials also has a usseful free page directory of free public record sites, reference material, and public record vendors available. Locate resources for civil records, criminal records, driving records, real estate records, licensing boards, public record vendors, record retrievers, legislation and much more. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov -Contains a wealth of statistical information on U.S. demographics. Free access to all of its publications released since January 1996. Includes population, housing, business, manufacturing activity, trade and government. Site offers links to other data centers. County and City Data Book http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html The library has the print version but selections from the book are also available here Committee on Open Government. Dept. of State. New York. http://www.dos.state.ny.us/coog/coogwww.html If you have questions about getting access to government information that falls under either the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) or the Open Meetings Law, check out this site. It includes publications, laws, and answers to frequently asked questions. And, perhaps just as important there is an e-mail link and phone number to the office. The staff there invite anyone to call for advice. Contact Information For U.S Congressmen - http://clerk.house.gov/index.html Dept. of Commerce http://www.commerce.gov/ Your can find a number of links here, most notably they have the Federal Budget back to 1998. They also have a link to the White House page (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/index.html) which has historical perspective on the budget generally going back to the 1940's. Easygov.com http://www.ezgov.com This site has ambitions of assisting government agencies in providing online services to their citizens. For example you can renew New York State registrations on-line. They also provide access to government officials and provide some news about elections. E-Mail Addresses for U.S. Senators- http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm FedWorld -http://www.fedworld.gov/ -A good search tool for federal government information. FBI Home Page http://www.fbi.gov/ -Includes the famous "Ten Most Wanted List" and information on current major investigations. Information on crime statistics, the FBI history, and current press releases. Government Online http://govspot.com/ A very complete site for locating government information. It also includes social services sites, libraries, historical documents, arts and humanities, justice, military, travel, and more. GPO Access Databases -http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html -Provides access to online databases of the federal budget, the Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional bills , documents and reports, Congressional Record, Federal Register, U.S. Code, GAO reports, and the Economic Report of the President. New York State Archives - http://www.archives.nysed.gov/ The New York State Archives is the official repository of New York State Government records having permanent legal and historical value. Their Web site offers access to archival information and a virtual tour of NY State government, people, culture, and economy. New York State Department of Labor http://www.labor.state.ny.us/ An important statistical site for labor statistics and job information. The site is useful to both businesses and employees. There are forms, regulations, education, and training information. Statistics can also be pulled out by areas in the state. New York State Assembly http://assembly.state.ny.us/- The official home page of the NYS Assembly including: Legislative Reports, The Legislative Process, Assembly Member Directory, Pictorial Tour of the New York State Capitol, and current Press Releases. New York State Board of Elections http://www.elections.state.ny.us/ An excellent site for finding local representatives, district maps, election law, enrollments, presidential primary information, etc. New York State Department of Motor Vehicles http://www.nysdmv.com/ No more waiting in line to take care of your motor vehicle problems. This site offers answers to your questions, allows you to download forms, provides online registration, and much more. New York State Government Information Locator http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/ -Single point of access to information provided by N.Y. State government agencies, the State Legislature and the Judiciary. New York State Insurance Department http://www.ins.state.ny.us/nyins.htm The site has sections for consumers, agents, and companies. Consumers can search for companies by name, see how long they have been able to sell in New York and how long they have done so. There are also consumer guides for a variety of issues such as long term care. New York State Senate Home Page http://www.senate.state.ny.us/- Provides information on Senate member and their histories, offices; bills introduced , passed and signed into law or vetoed; general info on the NYS Senate. For those who do not know who their Senator is can find out by using their zip code. Also provides a gopher menu to search or view New York Legislative Bills, New York Legislative Resolutions, New York State Statutes, New York State Constitution, New York State Chapters, and New York State Vetoes. New York State Telephone Directory http://www6.oft.state.ny.us/telecom/phones/orgsearch.jsp You can search by person or browse by agency. One link includes all New York State employees. Another link allows browsing by functional topic. Office Of Homeland Security - http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/ - Website of the Homeland Security Office whose responsibility is to develop and coordinate the implementation of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the United States from terrorist threats or attacks. Project Vote Smart http://www.vote-smart.org/- Project Vote Smart tracks the performance of over 13,000 political leaders including the President, Congress, Governors, and State Legislatures. SearchGov - http://searchgov.com/-Search for links to government on the Web. Includes Executive and Independent Agencies and Local and State Government. Search Systems: Public Information http://www.searchsystems.net/ This site is information rich. Interested in knowing the assessed value of a property in the area? Check out the New York County section. Want to check out a charitable organization? This is covered here. Worries about paroled inmates? Here too. How about a licence for an architect or other professional. Also here. Actually the site does not have everything -- but it has a lot. State and Local Government on the Net http://www.statelocalgov.net/ -Guide to government-sponsored Internet sites. Arranged by state. Includes multi-state organizations. U.S. Internal Revenue Service http://www.irs.gov -Tax laws and regulations, tax forms and publications, tax statistics, tax help, electronic services information. University of Michigan Documents Center http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html Access a broad range of government statistical data here. Access has been set up by both major categories, minor categories as well as a Google search. Topics range from abortion to world governments. Welcome to New York http://www.state.ny.us/ -Official New York State government Web site. Offers access to the Governor’s budget and speeches, "I Love New York" tourism info, and state education and economic development projects. The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/ -Features virtual White House tours, biographies and email addresses for President and Vice President. Provides full text of selected Presidential speeches, current press releases, a kid’s White House page, plus links to current U.S. statistical data. Law Resources Online Legal Information Added In the past when library patrons asked for information about or a copy of a New York court case, we had to refer them to the county law library. Now Colonie patrons have access to New York case law from any of the Library Internet computers. Online access is provided to selected Westlaw’s data bases including New York state cases, statutes, court rules, forms and more. It takes some practice to search the online service effectively. However, if you simply need to find a case, we can help you. In addition patrons can continue to use the hard copy legal books, including McKinney’s, US Code Annotated, family law and more. American Bar Association Law Information http://abalawinfo.org/ Site provides legal information on credit, financing, wills, estates, taxes, family law, family health, domestic violence, and much more. Just about every legal category of information is covered. For example if you have a problem with on-line shopping, there is a checklist of how to proceed. CourtHelp - http://www.nycourthelp.gov/ - An excellent site created by the Unified Court System to help people understand and use the courts. There is a nice collection of forms as well as a lot of helpful information. FindLaw http://cyber.findlaw.com/ -Internet directory for legal resources set up like the popular search directory Yahoo. From here you can find both US and international law. FindLaw Forms -http://forms.findlaw.com/ - At this site, visitors can access over 8,000 forms from United States federal and state courts for free from one easy-to-use location. FindLaw Constitutional Law Center at - http://supreme.findlaw.com - an educational resource site dedicated to the United States Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court. Designed with students and the general public in mind, the FindLaw Constitutional Law Center features an easy-to-read guide that leads visitors through historical documents, biographies, and Supreme Court decisions. Users can browse through the Federalist Papers, read the Constitution, or research the lives of the Founding Fathers or past and present Supreme Court Justices. LawHelp.org/ny - http://www.lawhelp.org/ny/ This site is promoted by the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, cin. to serve low-income people by providing a source of legal counsel and information. It has help on a variety of topics and contacts for those areas. Many of the pamphlets are available in other languages. Lawyer Locator (Martindale-Hubbell) http://www.martindale.com/locator/home.html -Law Directory which provides access to comprehensive listings of 900,000 lawyers and law firms around the world. Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/ Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute provides a range of court decisions, the U.S. code, the code of federal regulations and more. New York Courts and Law Guide http://www.nylj.com/Sponsored by West Group this site provides news, decisions, rules, a consumer law guide and more. New York State Code http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi?COMMONQUERY=LAWS Here you can browse the laws of New York by subject. As with the federal laws online, you may be better off visiting the library and looking at the laws in book form. Our set of Mckinneys includes an index and annotations. NY Department of State-Division of Administrative Rules http://government.westlaw.com/linkedslice/default.asp?SP=nycrr-1000 This site is powered by Thomson West and provides free access to an unannotated version of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR). The on-line version of the NYCRR is intended to provide the public with free access to the rules and regulations of New York State agencies. It is intended for informational purposes only. New State Attorney General -- Opinions http://www.oag.state.ny.us/lawyers/opinions/opinion.html This Website contains the Opinions of the Attorney General issued since 1995. Opinions are issued in response to requests by state agency officials and local government attorneys. The opinions fall into two broad categories, formal and informal opinions. Formal opinions are those issued to state departments and agencies. They are denominated "formal" because the Attorney General signs them as chief legal officer of the State. Informal opinions are issued to local governments at the request of the attorney for the local government, who is the municipality's chief legal officer. Opinions issued to the municipal attorney are denominated "informal" because it is ultimately the responsibility of the municipal attorney to provide advice to the local government.   New York State Unified Court System - http://www.courts.state.ny.us/ Nolo Legal Encyclopedia http://www.nolo.com/briefs.html -Brief advice on 15 legal topics including small business, patent, copyright & trademark, real estate and will & estate planning law. Annotated links are provided for further information on each topic. U.S. Code http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/index.html If you already know what section of the law you are looking for or you want a broad category, you can check the text of the law using this site. However you may be better off coming to the library to check the print version which includes a multi-volume index and annotations. U.S. Constitution http://www.usconstitution.net This site includes not only all the text and amendments but also what they call cornerstone documents and constitutional interpretation. Contact Richard Naylor, Government and Law Bibliographer To make suggestions about this site, to report dead links, or for information related to Government and Law resources you may contact Mr. Naylor at: William K. 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