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Public records request frightens workers

Tamara Koehler of the Ventura County Star reports on the paper's public records audit showing that 40 percent of county government agencies failed to comply with requests. "Ventura Unified School […]
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High salaries, free spending at N.Y. agency

Michelle Breidenbach of The (Syracuse, N.Y.) Post-Standard looks into the "high salaries and free spending of the public's money at the New York Power Authority," the state's publicly owned power […]
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Builders, nonprofit have close ties

Reese Dunklin of The Dallas Morning News reports that "The low-income housing builders at the heart of the FBI's corruption investigation at City Hall created a nonprofit organization, stocked it […]
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IRE Award winners announced

Toxic dumping, public corruption investigations among winners Investigative stories about deceit in Cleveland's public school district and an environmental disaster in New Jersey won the top prizes in the 2005 […]
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Federal fines go uncollected across the nation

Martha Mendoza and Christopher Sullivan of The Associated Press used federal records to show that the amount of unpaid federal fines has risen sharply in the past decade, in an […]
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Highway patrol policy changed during recall

John Hill of The Sacramento Bee found that the California Highway Patrol repeatedly shut down signature gathering at Department of Motor Vehicle offices across the state in response to the […]
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Execs benefit from backdating of stock options

Charles Forelle and James Bandler of The Wall Street Journal analyzed grant dates and stock movements and identified several companies with wildly improbable option-grant patterns. "The analysis bolsters recent academic […]
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Restraining orders fail to offer protection

Monica Rhor of The Orange County Register surveyed all 58 California counties and found widespread discrepancies in how the state's restraining order laws are being enforced. The system has become […]
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Public records difficult to obtain

Abraham Hyatt and Leslie Griffy of The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, Calif., found that cities throughout that county don't follow state law when it comes to public records requests. […]
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Code enforcement violations dismissed

Jeff Raymond of The Brownsville Herald examined five years of code enforcement violations — more than 11,000 records overall — to determine the number of cases municipal judges and prosecutors […]
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