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Crime, Law and Related Links

FirstGov. A portal to 20,000 government web sites, including over 27 million web pages.
The SSU library has compiled a good resource for searching governmental agencies. (See also "Law and the Courts" to find California links.) Look hard enough and you will find very useful sources of information for studying state government and the development of law.
This site contains links to Bay Area local government. The contents are changing very rapidly as government agencies come on line. An excellent link to the Bay government web world.
Public policy links from the Public Policy Institute of California.
The California Law Revision Commission. This has search capabilities and downloadable documents.
What list of local information sources would be complete without addresses of our local elected representatives and how to contact them. Most officials are not on-line but an increasing number are.
Sonoma County cities have come on-line. These sites and the links from them also provide glimpses of the beauty of the county as well as basic information about government.
- Sonoma County
- Bodega Bay
- Cloverdale
- Geyserville
- Healdsburg
- Petaluma
- Rohnert Park
- Santa Rosa
- Sebastopol
- Other Sonoma County cities/settlements (Yahoo's listing) all of which lack a web page listed via Yahoo as of 7.13.07

Perceptions of crime are strongly conditioned by press coverage and unrelated to objective crime levels. Documentation of this finding is widely available (see, for example, R. Surette, Media, Crime and Criminal Justice: Images and Realities.

Here are some free newspapers that are available on-line.
They might charge a fee some time soon so enjoy them while you can:
The American Journalism Review has what seems to be a comprehensive listing of newspapers. You have to go to each and find the free ones.
The Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
Times of London
San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner
San Jose Mercury News
USA Today
Seattle Times
Sydney Morning Herald
Irish Times
The Hill. Selected articles about life in Washington D.C. for Hill Watchers. Some of the articles are free, which is why it's listed here.

Here are some on-line zines for mass net audiences (these are not necessarily oriented to crime):

Microsoft's Slate and Microsoft's Justice and Public Safety. What's the angle on this?
The Salon has been a successful zine that is backed by Adobe and Apple. It is one of many springing up in Digitropolis, or Nosil ("Nozzle"), or what-have-you, San Francisco.
The Netizen is one of many choices at the Hotwired site. Ditto.
See Newsbite, a zine sponsored by Working Assets.
The Salazar library's listing of indexes of zines.
The Index of Newspapers Online and the Online Newspapers
Pretext Magazine. This is a well-done magazine on web-related information.

Electronic Privacy Information Center. Review and analysis of fundamental issues of privacy on the net and beyond.
Alana Maurushat, "Data Breach Notiication Law Across the World from California to Australia, " 2009. A survey of the state of law on data breaches in 25 countries, including the U.S.
The Civil Rights page. A cyber-response to hate speech on the web. This site has the report on "Justice on Trial: Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System" in html or pdf.
Constitutional Limits on Hate Crime Legislation (PDF; 73 KB) from the Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS)
Index on Censorship
FBI Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room . A subject based guide to declassified materials in the FBI's databases that have been made available because of the Freedom of Information Act. Topics include famous persons, historical interest, espionage, violent crime, gangster era, and unusual phenomena.
OpenNet Initiative OpenNet Initiative is concerned with how internet access is monitored.
Emma Goldman. Noted anarchist who spoke about, among many other things, free speech.
Voices of Civil Rights. A joint project by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the Library of Congress and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) includes an archive of stories regarding the civil rights movement (both current and past), and much more.
Martin Luther King:

Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore. Photographs of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, from the rioting of segregationists to the Ku Klux Klan.
Sonoma County Japanese American Citizen's League. This site will soon have oral histories of 60 interviewees who previously were taken to WW II relocation camps in 1942.
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Civil Rights Oral History Interviews: Spokane, Washington.
International Civil Liberties Report of the ACLU International Human Rights Task Force.The ACLU's page.
Hollywood 10. A site devoted to the 1947 House on Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Hollywood screenwriters and a director as Communists. Unclear authorship.
Digital Freedom Network. Challenges to the freedom of expression around the world, focused on journalism. This is a link to their censored material, from around the world.
Banned Books On-line
The Ken Marcus Position Paper on Affirmative Action and Non-Discrimination.
The Flag-Burning Page, or many of them. It is more than a virtually burning issue.
The IACP's "Protecting Citizens' Civil Rights Project"
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, includes documents and publications, i.e.:

Investigative Findings -- letters notifying jurisdictions of the results of investigations
Complaints -- complaints filed in federal court initiating lawsuits
Briefs -- selected briefs filed in federal court
Settlements and Court Decisions -- settlements resolving cases and decisions by federal courts in litigation
Reports to Congress -- annual reports to Congress describing Section's CRIPA work
Speeches -- speeches by Section staff
Publications -- other documents and publications

The Sonoma State University home page.
The SSU Women's and Gender Studies Department web site with good referrals to other notable links.
Environmental Studies and Planning at SSU has a nice site and some useful links.
The SSU Campus Department of Public Safety web page has a table showing the (very low) amount of serious crime at the SSU campus from 1992-present. The Clery Act data are updated regularly.
Social Science Research Data Are Available On-Line at this url for Sonoma State University faculty and students only. Use this resource to obtain data from ICPSR, The Field Institute's California Field Poll, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, and/or Census data. Request an account by telneting to venus.calstatela.edu, port 3501.