SteveZ. I wrote many of these long term US Senators and Representatives back in 1991 about the University of Minnesota Law Library's putting my mental health in question on and off for months in 1991 when I just told them I wanted to be honest with potential employers about my interest in doing something about a niche in access to practical information for survivors of crimes.

As my then high school teacher's daughter Michelle Mitchell had been murdered on my birthday of 2-24 in 1976 in Reno, Nevada, this was something very hard for me just to ignore especially as I had discovered this niche in libraries while looking for material to help my teacher's family and fellow high school English students at Earl Wooster High School in the Spring of 1976 cope with this murder. The Michelle Mitchell murder was also something with very heavy press in Northern Nevada from February 25, 1976 through at least 1985. I went to law school at the U of MN in 1986.

Most of these Members of Congress gave me the runaround of my having to contact my particular Senator and/or Representative for my Congressional district. This was the ones for Minnesota when I started this.

The niche in practical information for survivors of crimes is still there at many U.S. law and public libraries even though they do have a lot more than they did than back in 1991 but many of the same Members of Congress are there also.

I even remember a July 6, 1996 or so (or maybe it was 1995) report from CBS news from their national broadcast that the Library of Congress of all places was using this tactic of putting people who they saw as troublemakers mental health in question as a what they called very effective means of controlling their employees. The CBS national news said that this tactic was a favorite one of totalitarian regimes like the Soviets before the Iron Curtain came down.