Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:01:42 -0500 (EST) From: TRAC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Drug Enforcement Data from TRAC Here is some news from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the data gathering and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University. First. We have just put up interesting new data on the DEA, Customs and federal drug enforcement in general. The information is now available on our updated DEA site and TRAC's entirely new Customs Service site. Both are free. As always, information from the sites is embargoed to give you some reporting time. Release is for Monday, March 13. Key findings: federal drug sentences are substantially down, marijuana involved in more federal convictions than any other single drug. Customs now the number two federal agency on drugs. For more go to http://trac.syr.edu/media. Second. As you may know, in addition to our public sites on the DEA, Customs, INS, FBI and ATF, TRAC also operates a special subscription site for reporters called TRACFED. Although the public sites have a great deal of information, TRACFED allows you to undertake much more sophisticated analyses of what the government actually is doing. This news-only site was developed with support from the Knight Foundation. TRACFED offers a vast range of material. (1) Information about the enforcement actions of all federal investigators and prosecutors -- any agency, any law, any Justice Department program category, any federal judicial district or for the nation as a whole. Also available on TRACFED is (2) comprehensive information on IRS audits, (3) staffing of almost all federal civil agencies and (4) more or less instantaneous access to demographic and economic data by county, state and federal judicial district. For more information about how to subscribe to TRACFED again go to http://trac.syr.edu/media. For more information contact TRAC at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coming attractions. As we have done for the last few years, we are planning to put up a new edition of our IRS site in late March or early April, embargoed for sometime around the 15th. You will of course get a notice. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse Syracuse University 488 Newhouse II Syracuse, NY 13244-2100 315-443-3563 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trac.syr.edu ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd., PMB 176, Columbus, OH 43229 Archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/fa/ **************************************************************************