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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…

James Turk in Open States

Aug 21, 2017

Open States Data Availability Survey

Help evaluate your state’s legislative data.

In 2013 the Open States team put together an Open Legislative Data Report Card. The report card ranked states in several categories, helping us provide states feedback and apply pressure to…

James Turk in Open States

Jul 20, 2017

2017 So Far

originally published July 21, 2017

With the bulk of 2017 sessions now adjourned we wanted to give an update for what we’ve been working on besides keeping the scrapers running & what’s coming next.

Hitesh Garg in Open States

Jul 30, 2017

Google Summer of Code — Data Quality Tools Update

originally published July 31, 2017

Hitesh has been working with us as part of Google Summer of Code. Prior updates: intro, first update.

Hitesh Garg in Open States

Jul 3, 2017

Progress on the OCD Data Quality Tools

originally published July 4, 2017

Hello everyone!

It seems like just yesterday that I was selected for Google Summer of Code, but I’ve now completed my first of three months with the Open States project…

James Turk in Open States

Apr 20, 2017

Open States API Keys

originally published on April 21, 2017

TL;DR- We’re requiring API keys for API access again, register for a key and start using it by May 12th of this year. This applies even if you have a Sunlight-issued key.

James Turk in Open States

Jan 31, 2017

What’s Next in 2017?

originally published January 31, 2017

As of last week, we’re collecting current data again for all in-session state legislatures. (This includes 48 of the 50 states, as well as DC and Puerto Rico; Florida begins their main 2017 session in March, and Louisiana…

James Turk in Open States

Dec 8, 2016

Our First Month

originally published December 8, 2016

It’s been just over a month since we took over ownership of Open States and we wanted to give you an update on how things are going.

James Turk in Open States

Nov 2, 2016

Why Open States?

originally published November 3, 2016

We announced earlier this week that Open States is now being maintained by the original creators of the project, a community of Sunlight Foundation alumni and other volunteers.