The National Institute on Money in State Politics is inviting people to take part in a 12-minute “webinar” examining the sources of “donations to ballot measures including death penalty and victims.” More than $81 million has gone into supporting or opposing criminal justice-related ballot issues, according to the Institute’s invitation.

The webinar is scheduled for noon Tuesday, Eastern time, or 7 a.m. here in Hawaii.

To learn more about the money behind the measures, put on your headset and follow along on your computer at noon ET on Tuesday, Jan. 5, during our 12-minute webinar ”Criminal Justice for All: Death Penalty and Other Related Ballot Measures.”

Send us an email and we’ll sign you up. As always, we will personally answer your questions at the end of the webinar.

There are also a couple of other upcoming webinar topics:

Jan. 21 – Double Barreled: Pro- and Anti-Gun Control Contributions

Feb. 2 – Smoking Hot Donations from the Tobacco Industry

Send an email indicating your interest in any of these (using the link above) and they’ll send the instructions.

You can also rummage around in their archive of previously broadcast webinars, which include some “how to” sessions on using their online database of campaign contributions, and topics such as prison privatization, contributions from the oil and gas industry, and money going into marijuana ballot issues.

You can get the full list of previous webinars here.

You might also want to check out their list of useful online resources on money & politics.