Website of the Week

Open States: Discover Politics in Your State

https://openstates.org/

Open States is a collection of tools that make it possible for citizens to track what is happening in their state's capitol by aggregating information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. 

To begin, you can either enter an address or select a state to see recently passed bills and detailed legislator information. Bill, legislator, committee and event data is collected from official sources, linked at the bottom of each legislator, bill, vote, committee or event page. 

The data is available to be downloaded from the Open States website or app.

Review by April Ibarra Siqueiros, SWC Librarian