Congratulations!
You have just learned about some activities that you, as a learner, can take in order to familiarize yourself with the system, and get ready to move the needle.
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What's next?
You don't need to become a full-time records requester and court watcher, but we would suggest that you do these activities once or twice each, so that you're confident doing it when the need arises... or at the very least, prepare yourself by locating the necessary details for doing so in your state.
- Find your state's rules of professional conduct for attorneys
- Find your state's review board for attorney misconduct, and their form
- Find your state's code of judicial conduct for judges
- Find your state's review board for judicial misconduct, and their form
- Find the crimes defined by your state legislature
- Find the crimes defined by the federal legislature
- Save a local copy of them, and just read through them
- Find contact information for someone nearby who acts on criminal complaints
- Find contact information for the nearest federal magistrate and the FBI SAC
- Join the members-only community