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The Public transit series mainly contains materials on the subject of public transportation mainly in the Detroit metropolitan area but also including some materials about public transportation in other parts of Michigan, namely in Ann Arbor. The series contains correspondence; public transit planning documents, drafts and maps prepared by state and local government organizations; administrative records and correspondence of Transportation Riders United (TRU), a non-profit charitable organization, and issues of its official publication Moving forward.

The Digital Materials is comprised of two subseries: Issues and Personal Materials. The Issues subseries contains drafts of correspondence, email, articles, essays, eNewsletters (including copies of "Some Missing Lines"), flyers and other material related to the various issues with which Kavanaugh was involved: gay rights, religion, public transit, elections, voter suppression, and urban development among others. As such, these materials will have varying degrees of overlap with other series in the collection. The Personal Materials subseries includes digital photographs collected by Kavanaugh or taken of him and associates as well as some video footage of his home and neighborhood.

The Electronic materials series contains) with correspondence on various subjects reflected in previous series, photographs and amateur photo images of and possibly by John Kavanaugh, as well as commercially made images; business records of Coat & Simms Enterprises, Inc. Assisted Living Center; 2007 issues of Some missing lines (some duplicate and additional to the hard copies included in the Issues series), and e-mail correspondence.