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 "law" ...
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The Ask: Requesting and Negotiating For Records/Data
A guide on how to procure the documents you need in order to launch your investigation. This step-by-step tipsheet takes you through each individual step to gaining access to government records.
Tags: Burlington Free Press; FOI; Open Government Laws; Freedom of Information;
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Paying for Political Favor
A guide on how to employ websites and search engines in your investigation of political contributions and lobbying.
Tags: Federal Elections Committee; Political Contributions; Lobbying; President; Open Secret
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Examining For-Profit Colleges
This tipsheet contains a guide on how to begin your investigation into the financial records and habits of for-profit colleges.
Tags: For Profit College; College; University; Education
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Evaluating State Open Records Laws and Practices
Use Ginley's Powerpoint to check up on your state's open records law and how they match up to others.
Tags: open records; public access
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Forming and Operating a Tax-Exempt Journalism Organization
Hermes extensively lays out what it means to be a tax-exempt journalism organization and the history behind it and provides legal resources for anyone interested in starting their own nonprofit center.
Tags: nonprofits; tax-exempt; 990; 501(c)(3)
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Public access: It’s really quite simple
'Give us everything we want, and we’ll all get along fine'(And other tips for winning access to public records and meetings…) Know the law, and be prepared to argue it with Miller and Ludlow's tips.
Tags: public access; public records; government; sunshine law; FOIA
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Examining For-Profit Colleges
Get some great data and facts from this tipsheet on for-profit colleges, this is an issue not to be overlooked.
Tags: None
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Policing the police: Uncovering law enforcement
Get tips on how to ask questions about informants, search warrants and seizures, disciplinary actions, and lawsuits so that you can police the police in your community.
Tags: cops; law enforcement corruption; search warrants; informants
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Covering a corrupt state agency
Trying to expose a corrupt state agency can be tricky, especially if the agency is secretive and exempt from FOIA laws. Bombardieri provides several tips and tricks to getting inside information from a seemingly impossible source.
Tags: campaign finance; lawsuits; state payroll
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Covering Drug Trafficking and Designer Drugs
Learn about the drug trade beyond pills and pot and into the "new designer drugs, created by savvy, backroom chemists that often circumvent local and federal drug laws to provide a dangerous, but legal high."
Tags: drugs; incense; bath salts; plant food; not for human consumption