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Bush, Harken and the Public's Right to Know
National media outlets reported on President George W. Bush's activities as a director with Texas oil company Harken Energy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The stories referenced documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity during the course of research for the book, "The Buying of the President 2000" and two other Center investigative reports. Now, the Center has released new documents--and a series of stories--that shed additional light on what transpired at Harken while Bush was a director, a chronicle of Bush's Harken tenure, and the close relationship between Harvard Management and Harken.
Tags: IRE FOI AWARD CATEGORY; Bush; George W. Bush; Harken; Harvard; Enron; SEC
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Open and shut: Arizona's public records audit
This three-day series, published simultaneously in newspapers across Arizona, is the result of a six-month effort by media organizations across Arizona. The goal was to find out how a citizen would be treated when testing the provision of Arizona's Public Records Law that allows for inspection of public records. Auditors from 21 media organizations were sent to 187 police departments, sheriff's departments, planning and zoning offices and school district offices. Findings revealed that agencies other than police complied with almost every request for public records, but auditors often faced resistance with law enforcement--including one agency that logged a suspicious person report on an auditor just for seeking a record, then ran a computer check on him and trailed him around town.
Tags: IRE FOI AWARD CATEGORY; public records; public records law; police records; database mapping project
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NAS Study Shows Messy Reality Tied To Balancing Security, Openness
Before a National Academy of Sciences' study of non-lethal weapons science and technology was published Nov. 4, its classification review became a yearlong tug of war between NAS and a Defense Department office, revealing just how difficult and contentious decisions about releasing government information can be after Sept. 11.
Tags: IRE FOI AWARD CATEGORY; National Academy of Sciences; Defense Department; Sunshine Project; Federal Advisory Committee Act; security
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Judges vary sharply on disability approval; Access to Social Security files granted only after legal battle
Two stories that take a look at the rates at which individual Social Security administrative law judges grant disability benefits to claimants. It showed huge variation from one judge to another in the Houston area--a hotspot for controversy over how, and how often, benefits are granted.
Tags: IRE FOI AWARD CATEGORY; disability benefits; Social Security Administration; disability approval
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Stadium Naples
This IRE story is actually the FOI requests, court filings, affidavits and correspondence relating to reporter Gina Edwards attempts to obtain court-related documents from the state of New York "involving A.S. Goldman, a Naples-based brokerage firm that has been implicated in a $100 million fraud. ... New York's committee on Open Government, an official state body, agrees that the documents constitute public records, yet Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office has refused our repeated FOIL requests to review discovery documents." The story corresponding with the documents is #17443.
Tags: FOIA; public records; court records; stadium; lawsuits; open records; Freedom of Information Law "FOIL."