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• Redlining and Loan Discrimination by Banks and S&Ls

  Lists documents and other sources useful in investigating redlining and loan discrimination by banks and savings and loans.

  Tags: Community Reinvestment Act; Home Mortgage Disclosure Act; HMDA; CRA

  By George Clyde

  1992

• Investigating Loan Scams

  Lists sources and tips for investigating mortgage and home-improvement loan scams. See Morgue file # 8334 for story.

  Tags: loans; scams; bankruptcy; banks

  By Hank Phillippi Ryan; Kate Shaplen

  1992

• Investigating Politicians

  Provides a list of documents that could be useful in investigating politicians, including sample contribution forms, report of expenditures form, sponsorship of bills listings, registered lobbyist tracking system list, and other documents used by Vukelich in his award-winning investigation of the New Mexico legislature. 27 pages. First two pages (document list) useful for general reference; remainder are mostly useful as accompaniment to tape of Vukelich's panel discussion.

  Tags: Elections Campaigns Candidates 27 pgs.

  By Jack McElroy

  1992

• Questions and Answers about the Federal and State Endangered Species Acts

  List of regional coordinators for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; questions and answers about the federal and state endangered species acts; discussion of listing and exemption processes; memo from U.S. Department of Interior Inspector General regarding the ineffectiveness of the U.S. endangered species program. 12 pages.

  Tags: endangered species;

  By

  1992

• Downhome Tips on Green Reporting

  Tips for general environmental reporting gleaned from Marston's experience as editor for High Country News. Two pages.

  Tags: environment; reporting; sources

  By Betsy Marston

  1992

• Exposing Excessive Force in Law Enforcement

  Information on how to expose the use of excessive force in law enforcement. Includes samples of documents obtained from the L.A. Office of the Sheriff and the LAPD.

  Tags: police brutality; Los Angeles Police Department

  By Bet Barrett

• Breaking through the walls: Some sources and tips for reporting on prisons

  Six-page list of sources, records and experts useful in investigating jails and prisons; meant to accompany Grimaldi's 1990 series, "Cruel and Unusual Punishment,'' an investigation of the California Institution for Women in Frontera. Story archive No. 7417.

  Tags: sources

  By James Grimaldi

  1992

• Investigating Police

  An outline of records and human sources available for investigating police misconduct. Adams won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for her investigation of Dallas police brutality

  Tags: beatings; sexual assault; police brutality; police misconduct

  By Lorraine Adams

  1993

• Data Disk User's Guide

  Data Disk User's Guide: Meant to accompany a data disk of the PAC contributions of each state provided by National Library on Money and Politics. Includes information about the Library, field names for the PAC contribution files on the data disk, methodology of interest classification system and a list of the code names included in the file. Contact Library for current data disk.

  Tags: Political Action Committees; PAC; Congress;

  By National Library on Money & Politics

  1992

• Urban and Suburban Development: Documenting How the System Doesn't Work

  - Documenting how the urban/suburban development system doesn't work; includes regulations and codes to look for; cities that offer models of what can be done; additional sources - List of sources for investigating developers

  Tags: urban; sprawl; suburbs; growth

  By Todd Oppenheimer

  1992