Individual Rights
Privacy and Technology
The United States is at risk of turning into a full-fledged surveillance society. The tremendous explosion in surveillance-enabling technologies, combined with the ongoing weakening in legal restraints that protect our privacy mean that we are drifting toward a surveillance society. The good news is that it can be stopped. Unfortunately, right now the big picture is grim.
Project Vote Smart - The Last Trusted Source for Political Information
Project Vote Smart investigates candidates' voting records, campaign finances, position statements, backgrounds, and the evaluations done on them by over 100 competing special interest groups. The organization provides this information to you through thousands of sponsoring libraries, its Vote Smart Website, Hotline and Voter's Self-Defense Manuals. The Vote Smart Website provides access to a database on candidates and issues along with presidential candidate speeches (searchable by keyword and phrase), our publications (full text), youth inclusion program (where you can match your issue responses with those of the candidates) and links to all the best sites on the Internet with government and political information. You can even register to vote or find out who your candidates are by putting in your zip code.
Race Discrimination
This page provides answers to a number of questions about race discrimination in the workplace, including: 1. What is race discrimination? 2. Which federal law covers race discrimination? 3. Who is protected under the law? 4. Can I be discriminated against because my spouse and friends are of different races? 5. Can I be discriminated against because of the color of my skin or by someone of the same race? 6. Are racial jokes or slurs against the law? 7. Can I be assigned to a particular kind of job, or to a certain neighborhood or territory because of my race?
Racial Justice
We have come a long way since slavery and Jim Crow ruled the South, but deeply entrenched discrimination, subjugation, racism, and racial violence are still with us and continue to affect every person of color in every state, North and South.
Reasonable Accommodations & Your Rights as an Employee
The packet is designed to provide basic information about reasonable accommodation for employees with physical or mental disabilities.
Reducing Student and Teach Dropout Rates in South Carolina
Of the 63,394 students who entered high school in our state in 2005, an estimated 24,280 never graduated. This unacceptably high dropout rate is cause for alarm for our community, economy and public safety. South Carolina's teacher dropout rate is equal cause for alarm.
Searching Affordable Rental Housing
Whether you are looking for a place to call home, or you would like a place to list your rental properties. A free statewide listing and locating service is now available to assist you...
South Carolina Department of Public Safety
Find information about paying a ticket, obtaining evidence for a traffic ticket, obtaining a traffic collision report, and other services.
South Carolina Legislature Home Page
From this page, you can choose to explore information on the Senate, the House, and legislative resources. You may also use the search box in the upper right corner to locate pending or current laws of interest to you.
