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WRTV Indianapolis: School board member aims to boost transparency after filing her own complaint
Kenney, Kara. 2023. School board member aims to boost transparency after filing her own complaint. WRTV. June 16, 2023. A West Lafayette mother and school board member is aiming to improve transparency and the public’s access to information. Click on the image to play...
IndyStar: Neighbors’ relief turns to anger as bar is OK’d: El Chila’s license was denied, then extended
Cook, Tony. 2023. Neighbors' relief turns to anger as bar is OK'd: El chila's license was denied, then extended. Indianapolis Star, Apr 09, 2023. Last month, the Indiana Alcohol & Tobacco Commission used a new policy intended to crack down on problem bars to deny...
The Indiana Citizen: Moonlighting: Rokita fights court order to release report on his private employment — even though it allows him to redact as much as he wants.
Marilyn Odendahl. 2023. The Indiana Citizen: Moonlighting: Rokita fights court order to release report on his private employment — even though it allows him to redact as much as he wants. The Indiana Citizen. March 9, 2023 One day after being sworn in as Attorney...
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Digital access less than ideal in Indiana
By Craig Lyons, Samim Arif and DeJuan Foster Want to contact the county sheriff’s office and find out what’s happening in your community? Are you curious if your local health department has received any food-borne illness complaints? Would you like to know what kind...
Of search warrants and cell phone cameras
By DeJuan Foster and Samim Arif Have you ever used your cell phone to take a picture of a public record? Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act provides an option for members of the public to copy records on their own equipment. A team of Indiana University graduate...
Hiding behind HIPAA
By Craig Lyons Residents in St. Joseph County can dine safely knowing that no one reported a single case of food-borne illness to the county the first four months of the year. But if there had been a complaint, the public would be able to see only part of the...
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Orlando Sentinel: DeSantis tried to hide info on virus Taxpayers ended up footing the legal bills for lawsuit involving access to public record
DeSantis tried to hide info on virus taxpayers ended up footing the legal bills for lawsuit involving access to public record. 2021. Orlando Sentinel, Jan 20, 2021. (accessed January 30, 2021). Last month, the state of Florida had to fork over $7,500 of your money to...
Naples Daily News: ‘A terrible system for hiring officers’: 505 fired cops got a 2nd chance and blew it
Patel, Devan. 2021. 'A terrible system for hiring officers': 505 fired cops got a 2nd chance and blew it. Pensacola News Journal, Jan 03, 2021. (accessed January 4, 2021). Joseph Floyd turned Florida's Crestview Police Department into a criminal enterprise, the judge...
The Marshall Project: We Investigated How Police Use Dogs as Weapons. Here’s How You Can Do It Too.
We investigated how police use dogs as weapons. Here’s how you can do it too. in The Marshall Project. New York, 2020 (accessed December 29, 2020). But the use of dogs varied widely among the police departments for which we got data through public records requests;...