The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "complaint" ...
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Managing the Tipline
A presentation of how to electronically store your phone calls, emails and other ideas or complaints from your readers. Includes also some samples of forms, reports and searches from a tipline database created in MS Access.
Tags: CAR; database; tipline; organizing; record
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Criminal Records
The tipsheet includes an example of a Criminal Complaint and the affidavit that accompanies it describing the reasons and motives.
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Tipsheet No: 1081
This tipsheet is a copy of a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on August 23, 1999. The plaintiffs, two California state prison inmates, were thrown into solitary confinement for contacting the news media to report fraudulent business practices at a California prison. Inmates were allegedly ordered to replace "Made in Honduras" labels on garments from No Fear, Newport Blues, Mecca, U.S.A. and Trinidad Tees with "Made in the U.S.A." labels.
Tags: FOI
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The BOMEX files: A comprehensive analysis of Arizona's MDs
Using an analysis of the agency's computer database, obtained under the state's public records law, New Times found that the physician-dominated board rarely disciplined its own, accumulated a backlog of nearly 1,000 complaints and took years to deal with complaints against incompetent and dangerous physicians. This tipsheet provides advice on how to conduct a similar investigation.
Tags: CAR
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AP series brought to life the issue of state oversight of HMOs
This tipsheet includes journal articles and stories on HMOs that were aided by computer assisted reporting. Also included are insurance complaint forms that were used to obtain data for the database.
Tags: CAR