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Love your site! Thank you. I would like to see a collection of education hearing officer or appeals decisions from the states. I know NY puts them online but not all states do. Where can we find this information?
FeFe
Thanks, Fefe. On the hearing officer decisions, some states put them up and some don't. The only place that I know that has them all is LRP's Specialedconnection. Even the big information companies like West and Lexis do not have them. When I was training hearing officers in Illinois, as part of our contract we provided specialedconnection.com to them so that they could access the hearing officer decisions. So, if you are in a situation where you need access to all of them, the only place that I know you can go is LRP. I have priced them in the past and they were high, but not unreasonable. They have to realize that lawyers representing special ed. clients don't make a lot of money, so they try to keep their prices pretty low. On the other hand, it is not the most user friendly site you will ever see. The searching is pretty complicated and I recommend getting some training on using their service if you sign up for it.
What I can do, perhaps, is create a page that links to all the publicly available pages, such as NY, Texas, Illinois and many others. Depending on how these sites put their pages up, I may even be able to create a google custom search that searches only those pages. It won't be real pretty and I could not get 100% coverage, but at least it would be better than nothing. I will put that on my to do list for the site. Thanks for the recommendation, Fefe.
Any thoughts from anyone else on this issue?
Justin B.
Welcome to the Edjurist. I hope you are finding the information here helpful. As you have browsed around, are there any comments or questions you have? Are there things you would like to see here? Any and all suggestions are helpful and if nothing comes to mind now, feel free to come back and post your comments later. This thread will still be here.