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 "court docket" ...
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(More than 5) Databases for criminal justice reporting
Roberts discusses the "data-rich" nature of the criminal justice beat, identifying several key databases for reporters. Examples include 911 response data, jail bookings, jury selection transcripts, National Corrections Reporting program and many more
Tags: crime; arrest; jail; courts; police; criminal justice; violent offenders; sexual offenders; prison; inmates; judicial reporting; NACJD; NCRP; jury; juries; court docket
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How You, Too, Can Dig Up The Past
Nobody is going to tell you the whole story on a crime, especially if it's been a while since authorities brushed off the dust on it. Mitchell tells you how to do it yourself, how to dig into records, scour past coverage, and follow the paper trail to humanized testimonies. By the time you are finished reading Mitchell's tipsheet, you will be one step closer to thinking like a detective, like a prosecutor, and like a historian... and yes, that means "think outside the box." Mitchell tells you all from excavating the evidence to avoiding to dash your foot against a stone: what to do if someone says you cannot have the evidence, if people are shutting up, or if someone does not want to talk. He puts forth the rules of thumb and how to talk to targets.
Tags: investigation; investigating; investigative; criminal record; digging into past; sources; records; paper trail; interviews; ambush; detective; prosecutor; historian; courthouse; crime; court; docket.
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International Terrorism Convictions
This tipsheet contains a spreadsheet of international terrorism convictions in the US during 2003. The tipsheet also contains two articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer, one about 65 New Jersey terrorism cases and one concerning the Department of Justice's inflation of terrorism convictions, along with a docket from a district court case in Massachusetts.
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White Collar Crime
Alice Crites offers this tipsheet on using the web and resources from the Census Bureau to track white collar crime. A great handout in the post-Enron era.
Tags: PACER; TRAC; census; white collar crime; federal courts; county courts; dockets; public records; FOI
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The Battle for Open Records in California
This tipsheet describes two cases in which the media fought to have records made public: San Jose Mercury News, Inc v. U. S. District Court and Los Angeles Police Department v United Reporting Publishing Corporation.
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