Tipsheets on lobbying

September 1999 View as JSON

Government & Politics Investigative Methods

This article directs journalists to IRE tipsheets that provide government contact information and resources for researching lobbying activities, ethics laws, and lobbyists' involvement in elections across different jurisdictions.

Take a look at Tipsheet #116, a one-page source list of government office contacts that have Information on lobbying activities.

Tipsheet #100 provides state-by-state listings of agencies that administer ethics and lobby laws.

Another helpful tipsheet regarding lobbyists is Tipsheet #923, "Lobbyists and local elections," from the 1999 National CAR Conference.

All tipsheets are available online at www.ire.org/resourcecenter