Justia Releases Free Service for Tracking Federal Regulations.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Justia, a legal media and technology company, today announced the release of Justia Regulation Tracker (http://regulations.justia.com), a free resource that enables users to find and track new rules, proposed rules and notices originating from specific federal agencies and sub-agencies. With over 250 federal agencies and sub-agencies and over 30,000 rules, proposed rules and notices issued on an annual basis, tracking a specific agency's new rules and notices through the Federal Register can be time-consuming. Justia Regulation Tracker now makes that process easy. Justia Regulation Tracker allows users to browse, search, and track new Federal Register documents by agency and document type via customized daily updated RSS feeds. For instance, a government contractor could track new Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States rules by subscribing to a free RSS feed, or a First Amendment attorney could search for and track Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. (FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. ) notices that contain the term "television." "I just had someone ask me whether a product like this existed -- and at the time it didn't," said Bonnie Shucha, the Head Reference Librarian at the University of Wisconsin Law School Facilities The law school is situated on Bascom Hill, the center of the UW-Madison campus. In 1996, the law school completed a major renovation project that joined two previous buildings and created a four-story glass atrium. . "Justia keeps getting better and better." Justia Regulation Tracker also offers both marked-up text and PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. versions of each of the federal rules and regulations found in its RSS feed or search results. "A tremendous amount of information is published through the Federal Register each day," notes Justia Librarian Cicely cicely: see sweet cicely. Wilson. "Justia Regulation Tracker enables researchers to pinpoint the exact federal regulatory information of interest and, of course, is available for free like our other legal information resources." About Justia: Justia Inc. is a legal media and technology company focused on making legal information, resources and services easy to find on the Internet. Justia provides Internet users with free case law, codes, regulations, legal articles and legal blog databases, as well as community resources. The company also provides legal blog and Web development services for law firms, educational, public interest and other socially focused organizations. |
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