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 "drivers licenses" ...
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Investigating Trucking
This tipsheet is a comprehensive guide to reporting on the trucking industry. It begins with a list of questions to ask at the beginning of an investigation, like, "Did the truck driver have a valid Commercial Drivers License?" Next, the tipsheet lists some pieces of information that reporters should be able to find before deadline, that could make their stories better. Then, the tipsheet lists possible follow - up investigations; these are more long-term projects and might make for good enterprise stories. There is a description of how to go about each investigation. Finally, the tipsheet ends with a list of contacts and government agencies that could be helpful for a reporter writing a story about the trucking industry.
Tags: transportation; highways; FARS; accidents; driving; drivers licenses; traffic
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Finding (almost) Anybody And Especially Licensed Professionals
Reisner takes the mystification out of "backgrounding" individuals, claiming it doesn't need to be made more complicated than it really is. While no single tipsheet is the "IT" tipsheet, this is a contender. This hearty tipsheet includes prospect research sites, FedStats, active association sites and more.
Tags: Public records; liens; lawsuits; limited partnerships; deeds; mortgages; court records; drivers licenses; associations; directories; databrokers; census; SEC
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Tipsheet No: 442
Poynter provides a list of some rich sources of data to drive your stories, including census, HMDA, driver's license and driving records, real estate, education, crime and courts, FBI ASR Summary Reports, health, death records and prison data, and where analysis of these databases may lead you. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org
Tags: Ohio; Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
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A guide to backgrounding individuals
A comprehensive guide on backgrounding individuals adapted from "A Public Records Primer and Investigator's Handbook." Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org
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Information On A Person: Source List: Ken Cole, This Is Your Life
Handout consists of an article written by the reporter in which a volunteer gave only his name and address and let researchers find out as much information about his life as possible (which was a great deal); also included is a thorough review of databases used to find individual information, including commercial services, court records, real estate information, drivers license information, and credit databases; also includes a one page listing of where to look to get particular information on an individual.
Tags: 12 pages
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Tipsheet No: 240
A copy of an article written by Paul for Database Magazine details all of the database sources of information to use when backgrounding an individual, including court, driver's license, real estate, credit and news records.
Tags: Public records 9 pgs.
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Backgrounding Individuals
"Records: Some of the Basics" describes sources of information obtainable from public records. Includes licenses (professional, driver's, etc.) issued at the local, state and federal levels; property records from county assessors and recorders; and non-profit corporation records. A more concise, less in-depth version of information found in The Reporters Handbook.
Tags: Technet 990 Encyclopedia of Associations Voter Registration
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Tipsheet No: 47
Documents from Freedburg's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of the Yahweh religious sect and its connections to 14 murders. Documents include FBI records, Freedburg's request for criminal file, U.S. District Court documents, Florida motor vehicle registrations, drivers' license records, Metro-Dade Police Department and Public Safety Department request for latent comparison, incident and autopsy reports, Yahweh University's "Open Letter to the World" complaining of the City of Miami's harassment of that institution; inter-office memo; Yahweh literature filed in federal lawsuit; Yahweh's corporate filing; police department's Internal Security Unit report; UCC filing; and affidavit for search warrant.
Tags: None