The issue focused on the fact that it is more than a year after the law's implementation, and there are no federal laws to govern what home-based legal services can be used for.

"I do not know of any state or local government in this country that has given up on public access to information about its social service programs," said State Rep. John Ralston, D-Duluth, who co-sponsored the bill. "It is my hope that with the political will to work