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The first RESTful API for the Federal Election Commission. We're aiming to make campaign finance more accessible for journalists, academics, developers, and other transparency seekers.
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Allow search for legal documents by both old and new citations (across reclassifications) #2048

Closed vrajmohan closed 7 years ago

vrajmohan commented 7 years ago

Statutory citations have been remapped according to http://uscode.house.gov/editorialreclassification/t52/Reclassifications_Title_52.html. E.g., 2 USC 432 became 52 USC 30102. Legal documents may mention the old statute, the new statute, or both. There is a requirement to search for these documents using either the old citation or the new citation.

noahmanger commented 7 years ago

Does this make sense to just roll into the issue for cleaning up citation data, or do we want to keep this separate? https://github.com/18F/openFEC/issues/2123

vrajmohan commented 7 years ago

As long as we have a solution for the user interface for searching by a citation that is not actually present in the same form in the legal document, this can be rolled into the issue for cleaning up citations.

noahmanger commented 7 years ago

@vrajmohan Great. Yeah, we nearly do. Sorting out remaining issues here https://github.com/18F/openFEC-web-app/issues/1736. I'll keep this open while we resolve that just to make sure it all makes sense.

noahmanger commented 7 years ago

Ok, UX issues being sorted out elsewhere and this work is included in this ticket https://github.com/18F/openFEC/issues/2123 , so closing.