"Since December, the paper has been reporting about UM's handling of alleged rapes involving students - including allegations of gang rapes by members of its football team. The Missoulian and the Wall Street Journal have since filed a joint FOIA request on the topic."
"An Asbury Park Press investigation has exposed how Lakewood, New Jersey school officials slashed the high school’s graduation rate to win a $6 million federal grant, lied to parents of special education students to save money, spend millions of dollars busing school children to religious and otherwise private schools, and showed how a lawyer made millions from one of the poorest districts in New Jersey. Federal and state officials are now investigating."
“The memos are copied to the Prosecuting Attorney who responds thanking the officer who issued them. State ethics guidelines however forbid prosecutors from encouraging witnesses not to speak with the defense. As a result of investigative reporter A.J. Lagoe’s reports, a state ethics investigation has been launched.”
"It stems from the suspicious death of a 74-year-old woman living in a private assisted living home. An email thread between the victim's daughter and the Deputy County Attorney proves it. But Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery won't talk about it."
"In partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute, Need to Know investigates whether U.S. border agents have been using excessive force in an effort to curb illegal immigration."
"The report raises questions about accountability because border agents are part of the Department of Homeland Security and therefore are not subjected to the same public scrutiny as police officers who use excessive force. It also questions whether, in the rush to secure the border, agents are being adequately trained. And it raises the question: why aren’t these cases being prosecuted?"
"An investigation by The Washington Post has found that Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work might have led to the convictions of potentially innocent people, but prosecutors failed to notify defendants or their attorneys even in many cases they knew were troubled."
A yearlong Chicago Sun-Times investigation by reporters Tim Novak and Chris Fusco, with Carol Marin, led a judge to agree Friday, April 8 to appoint a special prosecutor to re-examine an 8-year-old homicide case involving a nephew of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley. The special prosecutor will also investigate whether police and prosecutors gave the nephew a pass because of his uncle.
Through a public information request The Monitor has found that a municipal judge, in Hidalgo, Texas, doesn't mind handing out favors. From January 2010 to April 2011 839 citations were submitted by local politicians and city employees, mostly traffic tickets, to the judge for special consideration. The list obtained, kept by the court administration, revealed all but a handful were dismissed.
Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, for the Associated Press, report that undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the country, according to interviews and documents that show how police have used counterterrorism tactics to monitor even lawful activities.
Elmira Star-Gazette reporter Jason Whong showed that despite having the benefit of the newspaper's archives and knowing where to look and which dates to research, New York's Freedom of Information and open records law couldn't help him -- or any parent -- find much evidence of an accused sexual predator's history of similar crimes and convictions going back 42 years.