PLAINSITE

PlainSite is a hybrid government transparency project and legal research tool. They've imported almost a million federal court cases and thousands of political contributions and linked them to several hundred thousand legal entities such as companies and non-profits. From laws to regulations to lawsuits to judges to law firms to lawyers to lobbyists to political donations to bureaucrats to board members and back again, PlainSite explains how the entire legal system works. In addition to ma... king huge volumes of data accessible to the public free of charge, PlainSite lets ordinary citizens impact the law-making process. Their issues section allows members and anonymous users to identify a problem, optionally propose a solution to it, and easily specify the changes to the statutes or regulations necessary to implement the solution. Other users can then indicate their support of a proposed solution, allowing a critical mass to form behind beneficial changes to the law that legislators cannot ignore. Professionals such as lawyers and government officials can also benefit from the PlainSite Pro features that provide additional insight into the legal system in near-real-time. PlainSite is a project of Think Computer Corporation and Think Computer Foundation.More