Enhancements to Enforcement Query System
May 25, 2004 Advisory to Editors, Reporters, Broadcasters, Correspondents |
ENHANCEMENTS TO ENFORCEMENT QUERY SYSTEM |
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WASHINGTON ? The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has completed the first expansion of its Enforcement Query System. The program, which permits users to search and retrieve information about closed FEC enforcement actions, now includes all cases released during the period from January 1, 2001 through the present. There were 103 cases containing nearly 15,000 pages of documents released during 2001. These cases were added to the system this week, several weeks ahead of schedule. Users of the system can search for specific words or phrases from the text of all public case documents. They can also identify single matters or groups of cases by searching additional identifying information about cases including case names and numbers, complainants and respondents, timeframes, dispositions, legal issues, and penalty amounts. In addition to adding cases, the Commission has improved the Enforcement Query System in a number of ways in recent months. For example;
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