Cayuga County Legal Research Project Proposal
If there are any ambitious and energetic lawyers...investigative reporters...or university researchers out there who are looking for an interesting project with results that could have far reaching results for Cayuga County, NY and surrounding counties...here is a project proposal for you to consider.
Your mission...should you choose to accept it....is to consider the following for the Cayuga County Legal Research Project:
Review the information contained on these webpages in this order:
Then take a look at this webpage:
and use the three datasets for Cayuga County to do a comparison between case type and legal professionals assigned to see if you can figure out the patterns that are there.
Helpful hints - when comparing the datasets and crime stats with the information on the webpages above...keep in mind the denominator to compare charged crimes vs prosecuted crimes, as well as crime types and prosecution rates, and results of the cases. This data should then be compared against the legal professionals assigned to specific case types, as well as prosecution ratios. The dataset should be looked at over the period of 2019-2024 or from 2014-2024 for those with higher computing power.
While putting all of the pieces of this puzzle together...enjoy some music while you are doing your data analysis:
https://youtube.com/@IveHadEnough-CayugaCounty
Bonus helpful hint - the list of Cayuga County Support Videos also have relevant information pertaining to this overall situation occurring in Cayuga County NY.
Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) webpage from Cayuga County for those who may want to know more about the asbestos issue and why just two years earlier the contractor they hired for renovations...somehow overlooked the "vermiculite" issue...or not...
Here is the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) webpage from Cayuga County, NY.
Here is the Freedom of Information Law Request (pdf) for Cayuga County, NY.
Related article that serves as a Table of Contents for articles on Cayuga County: “The Morning After...(humor…but not really)”