Mike Roos Papers. CSLA-3. Collection Overview

THE THOMAS AND DOROTHY LEAVEY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES RESEARCH COLLECTION

MIKE ROOS PAPERS, 1977--1991 (CSLA-3):
Overview of the Collection

The Mike Roos Papers provide a record of the activities and interests of Assemblyman Mike Roos during his fourteen years as a California legislator. The legislation records, in particular, document Roos's ongoing support in issues regarding housing, health care, assault weapons, the elderly, and several other major interests. The legislation and the correspondence series are the two largest--the former with sixty-two boxes, the latter with fifty-nine. The correspondence and subject files assist in providing extensive background and supplementary information to the bills described in the legislative series. In fact, there is much overlap between the two series. For example, materials documenting support and opposition to a ban on assault weapons can be found in the legislative series, the correspondence series (subseries F), and in the subject files.

A wide range of Assembly activities is documented in the collection, but for a relatively small amount of time. Most of the material in this series dates from the late 1980's with the exception of a group of floor session agendas from 1981 to 1984.

The subject files cover the broadest time period--1979 to 1990--and include correspondence and press clippings grouped around specific subjects. A very large section of this series is devoted to the issue of the Los Angeles Raiders leaving the L.A. Coliseum for the possibility of relocating in Irwindale.

Most of the newspaper clippings concern assault weapons, the Olympic Oversight Committee, and the FBI "sting" operation in August of 1988.

Very little audiovisual material is included in this collection. A few photographs depict Roos and various other legislators.

For maximum accessibility, the collection has been divided into ten separate series, with emphasis on the retention of original order whenever feasible. The series are: Legislation, Assembly Activities, Correspondence, Memoranda, Subject Files, Communications, Audiovisual Materials, Maps and Charts, Memorabilia and Ephemera, and Published Materials.