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Causes: Crime & Law, Public Interest Law
Mission: To ensure that government is accountable to the voters and taxpayers.
Programs: Encouraging, sponsoring, and facilitating the public's right to know about the workings of government at all levels. Encouraging, sponsoring, and facilitating the cultivation and diffusion of knowledge and understanding of the various civil liberties, first amendment of the constitution of the united states, and laws of the united states or of the state of new mexico or which are established by traditions, through the giving of lectures and the publication of addresses, essays, treatises, reports and other literary and research works in the field of press freedoms and first amendment protections. Making inquiry into the extent and adequacy of the protection of freedoms in the united states and of the state of new mexico, and to publish the results of any such inquiry. To supply assistance whenever possible to persons involved in activities wherein their first amendment freedoms as guaranteed to them under the laws of the united states and of the state of new mexico, are threatened or infringed upon.