Open States

latest updates from the Open States team

James Turk in Open States

Sep 9, 2019

Adding Full Text Search to Open States

For years, the most requested feature on Open States has been…

James Turk in Open States

Feb 25, 2019

Happy 10th Birthday, Open States!

It was 10 years ago today that the first post about what would become Open States was made on the Sunlight Labs blog.

Read the post here:

James Turk in Open States

Jan 10, 2019

Introducing the new openstates.org

Just over a year ago, we gave a preview of some work that team member Olivia Cheng was working on…

James Turk in Open States

Jan 3, 2019

2019 Session Updates

We’re getting our data ready for 2019 as legislatures come back into session.

James Turk in Open States

Nov 5, 2018

More Ways to Get State Legislative Data

The Open States API has been putting legislative data in people’s hands since 2010. In…

James Turk in Open States

Oct 19, 2018

New Directions

There’s been some radio silence here lately that has led to a few people asking about bigger picture questions, and we wanted to address some of these & make a few announcements regarding the direction of the project going forward. If you’re less interested in the “why” and more interested in the…

Bikram Bharti in Open States

May 14, 2018

Google Summer of Code — Crowdsourcing & Scraper Fixing

Hello everyone!

My name is Bikram Bharti, I am working with Open States this summer aspart of the Google Summer of Code program.

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Miles Watkins in Open States

Mar 21, 2018

Wrapping up my Open States contract

This is my last week of my three-month stint working full-time on Open States.

So far in 2018, I’ve made over 100 scraper code commits, dozens of manual data corrections, built up our community of contributors (including 70 prospective…