Database Search: Access to Public Records

The CAP Sunshine Index on the right provides the CAP ranking scale. Below you have four options for searching the CAP database. By selecting one, a submenu will appear with more specific options to help you find the access ratings you are looking for.

The MBCAP state ratings system is based on whether a law facilitates or restricts access, and not on any other particular quality of the law. This Web site does not offer legal advice. For assistance with a particular problem, contact an attorney or see our resources library for additional help.

• Choose one of the four options:
• See ratings for every access law category in one state
• Examine summaries, known as capsules, of individual provisions of access laws for one state
• Compare ratings and summaries of individual provisions of access laws between two states
• Compare ratings for one access law category across 50 states