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> Law ABC of section 123, on appendix XYZ passed 7 years ago as an amendment to a completely unrelated bill nobody was paying attention to Surely you've read a
by esbranson 12y ago
> Law ABC of section 123, on appendix XYZ passed 7 years ago as an amendment to a completely unrelated bill nobody was paying attention to
Surely you've read all 150,000 section of the California statutes, 50,000 sections of the federal statutes, 30,000 sections of the California regulations, and 30,000 of the federal regulations. I mean, its not as if the government is purposely not publishing the law in an accessible manner. The government spends billions of dollars to send frogs into space, so surely the law must be so easy to find and read that you can download it in a standardized, machine-readable format from a multitude of sources, for free (as in freedom and as in beer)..
- gknoy 12y agoIs it fair to say that the laws are deliberately not published in an accessible manner? It seems more plausible that the sheer volume of the laws and amendments mean that it's hard to publish them in an accessible way. If only we could adopt a git workflow. ;)
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- esbranson 12y agoIts often available in a standardized, machine-readable format, but inaccessible nonetheless. E.g., California's laws have been available in XML since the 1990s or something, but they weren't accessible until 2009 or so.[1] Inaccessibility is obviously not a technical problem. [1] http://maplight.org/pr_lawsuit http://maplight.org/pr_lawsuit