California Courts
This official website of California’s Judicial Branch promotes equal access and justice to all through the information provided. A myriad of self-help topics can be explored (probate, debt collection, adoption, trial preparation, domestic violence, fee waivers, and criminal law to name a few) to gain an understanding of a topic or a guide for completing a procedure. A person can also “ask a librarian” a question, complete their court forms, search the Official California court opinions, and find Court rules, jury instructions, and instructional guides. Recently, an “Immigration Resource Directory” was added.

California Laws
The official website of the Legislature provides the full text of California Assembly and Senate bills and resolutions plus daily updates on those bills and legislative activity from 1999 to the present plus the full text of California’s codes to browse or search. From the homepage, one can do a quick bill or code search or select the California Law tab and conduct a text search of one or more California codes. Bills and analyses from before 1999 are on the previous Legislative website - http://leginfo.ca.gov/. California’s historical statutes, archived Assembly and Senate final histories, searchable weekly histories, daily histories, and journals are within the archives of the California Assembly clerk.

California State Government
Browse this colorful state website under the keyword icons for “how, who, what, were, when and why.” The answers will identify information about the governor and other state officials, state agency information and agency regulations, resources for people with disabilities, calculate child support and much, much more. The website was a 2016 “Best of the Web Finalist.”

California State Library
The outstanding library website provides access to official state information about agency programs, its own historic collections, continuing education opportunities and genealogical resources. The Bernard E. Witkin Law Library, located within the state library, is known for its holdings in the area of California and federal legislative history, California Supreme Court and Court of Appeals briefs, and Northern California historic land claims. The state library is the only regional Federal/GPO depository library in the state. It collects every government document published by the U.S. Government Publishing Office. By comparison, the LA Law Library is a selective federal depository, collecting a fraction of what is published.

U C Hastings
The University library’s website is noted for its current and historic voter guides.The U C Hastings’ California Ballot Propositions and Initiatives guides includes election results and ballot measures from 1911 to the present. Another Northern California program, the Institute of Governmental studies at Berkeley offers guides to California state elections, from 2000 to the most recent state-wide elections and the California Secretary of State’s website has statewide election results from 1990 to the present, voter information guides from March 1996 to the present, and the history of California Initiatives from 1912 to the present.