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The Legislative Relations records relate to efforts of MHANYS to influence the New York State Legislature on issues related to mental health. Includes a newsletter from MHANYS on mental health issues, an annual MHANYS conference on mental health issues facing New York State legislature, records from the annual legislative day when mental health advocates from across the state assemble in Albany to hear presentations and visit the offices of state legislatures to lobby on behalf of a mental health issues agenda, legislative conferences and mini-conferences where mental health advocates discuss issues regarding current proposed legislation, and documents regarding MHANYS's Legislative Network of individuals donating to support of MHANYS advocacy and on a MHANYS mailing list for information on mental health policy issues. Also includes a bill paid by MHANYS to the Legislative Retrieval Service, an organization performing information retrieval services on legislation and supporting state records.

Press Releases Press releases and media advisories, announcing MHANYS' activities, or expressing MHANYS' position on various legislative issues or other newsworthy events.

The Edward R. Murrow subseries includes administrative files, news clippings, material related to the promotion of the book, and correspondence about Persico's sale of rights to the book to filmmakers. Note that Persico donated most of his records related to this book to the Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy at Tufts University.

This subseries contains chronologically arranged materials related to the Legal Defense Fund, including the newsletter, Death Row UNITED STATES.

This series contains materials about the environmental consequences of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. It contains articles, a guide, a report, and correspondence.

The records in this subseries include publications, fact sheets, news clippings, legislative material related to the Superfund, and Superfund financing in New York State. Additional records in this series are actively being used at CEC and will be transferred in the future.

These records include correspondence, news clippings, newsletters and other publications related to toxic chemicals and pollution in New York State. Lobbying and outreach records document CEC efforts to pressure the New York State Department of Health to investigate the health effects of toxic pollution and to pressure the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to clean up toxic waste and prosecute polluters.

Defenders/California Appellate Project (CAP). It was originally entitled the Death Penalty Update but its name was changed to the RECAP Newsletter in 1984. Also in this subseries are four copies of the Death Penalty Information Bank published in 1983, 1984, 2000-2001, and 2002-2003.