{"value"=>"<p>The commission's drafts, proposals, and final reports comprise Series IV. Included are progress, status, and summary reports; chapter drafts and issue reports; chairman's and executive director reports; and the bound volumes of the final commission report. The commission also filed individual drafts for the final report alphabetically by issue name. These files also contain literature reviews based on some of the research compiled in Series I.</p> <p>The commission was split up into various committees and subcommittees to focus more closely on discrete matters of the broader mandate issues. Each committee and subcommittee, as well as the commission as a whole, issued interim reports between 1988 and 1989. These address the commission's progress and findings, cite research sources, and contain statistical analysis. The full commission interim report also contains annotations, drafts, notes, and an appendix of testimony excerpts from the public hearings.</p> <p>The culminating final report, entitled <span class=\"title\">Report of the New York State Judicial Commission on Minorities</span>, was published in five bound volumes, which are all held in the Final Report files. Also found here are master copies, notes, outlines, recommendations, and working drafts. The final report illustrates the manner in which the individual research issues and statistical analysis were crafted into chapters, and written into a five-volume cohesive report.</p> <p>Volume one of the final report is comprised exclusively of the Executive Summary. Volume two contains chapters on perceptions, court facilities, treatment, and utilization of the courts; legal representation; pretrial processing and criminal penalties; civil case outcomes; language interpreters in the courts; minority representation on juries; and Native Americans and the court system. Volume three addresses Legal Education, while volume four concentrates on issues pertaining to the legal profession, non-judicial officers and employees of the court; and minority contractors. The eight chapters of volume four cover the bar examination; the legal profession; the judiciary; the non-judicial workforce; testing alternatives; issues with court officers; the non-judicial work environment; and minority contractors.</p> <p>The fifth volume of the final report includes appendices comprised of staff reports, working papers, and reports submitted to the commission. The views and perspectives presented in these appendices are not exclusively aligned with those of the commission's findings. There are background briefing papers addressing perception, treatment, and utilization of the civil courts; judicial selection and the experiences of minority judges; legal representation of minorities; non-judicial employment; civil outcomes; interpretation and translation in the courts; criminal sanctions and pre-trial processing; the legal profession; the bar examination; and juror attitudes towards minority attorneys and defendants. This volume also holds results to the surveys which are located in Series III, as well as reports and charts of the survey findings. Additionally, there are two reports written by Native American groups to the commission which speak to issues of concern to these individuals. Draft versions of the Native American reports are also held in the Chapter Drafts and Issues Reports in the Indian Issues files.</p>"}