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 "legal issues" ...
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Data Privacy Scorecard: What To Watch in 2012
Sableman highlights key legal proposals, pertaining to data privacy issues, to be monitored in 2012.
Tags: data; privacy; data privacy; privacy regulation; data regulation;
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Contacts, Strategies and resources for Border and Immigration Coverage
Olsen provides an extensive lists of resources for covering issues related to immigration - including US Government sites/data, Mexican nonprofit organizations, key journalism sites, think tanks, lawyers, and much more
Tags: immigration; human rights; boarder patrol; boarder states; crime statistics; legal issues; immigrants; immigration studies
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Navigating the Social Network Minefield
The authors discuss why social networks have a place in journalism, and how to use them to enhance your stories. They also discuss some ethical and legal issues regarding the use of social networks. The authors include advice for creating compelling visuals from a computer screen. The tipsheet ends with examples of journalism in which social networks have been well utilized.
Tags: social networks; facebook; MySpace; internet research; sourcing; journalism ethics; visual story telling
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Top 10 Legal Threats to Journalists and How to Fight Back
This tipsheet reviews the top ten legal threats to journalists, including libel, prior restraint and disclosure of confidential sources. For each threat, the tipsheet gives some recent examples.
Tags: legal issues; ethics; law; fabricated stories; anonymous sources
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Legal Issues
This tipsheet provides useful tips about how to use FOIA before, during, and after the story. It includes information about the legal issues surrounding public records and how to be informed of your rights. The tipsheet also includes a compilation of helpful FOIA Web sites, government Web sites, and the reporter's privilege concerning subpoenas.
Tags: FOIA; subpoenas; shield laws
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Tips for covering a condemnation fight
Using legal condemnation as an example, Baniak describes how public records can help reporters investigate key money issues and city government.
Tags: condemnation; city government; city council; campaign finance; disclosure reports; public utility regulators; Kentucky; Lexington; open records; nonprofit; utilities; city employees
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Deals with Cops May Be More Than You Bargained For
Getting access to police scenes or even activities such as drug raids can be a big boon for a broadcast station. However the legal strings attached may be more than reporters might think. Tobin details the legal implications of working with police departments. He also explains ways to avoid certain pitfalls in such deals.
Tags: law; media law; lawyers; police; broadcast; legal issues
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Newsgathering and the "Inadvertent" Crime
While covering the news, reporters often come across many illegal activities. Sometimes this crosses a line from reporting on illegal actions and possibly engaging in them to aid a story. Tobin explains how the law rules on such matters and how to make sure you stay within legal limits.
Tags: law; legal issues; media law
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Access To Electronic Court Records
An extensive presentation of legal issues and methodology to access electronic court records, including a list of new rules to expand public access to electronic trial court records. Also included is a draft on a Model Policy on Public Access To Court Records, prepared in February 2002 on behalf of the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators by The national Center for State Courts and The Justice Management Institute.
Tags: legal; courts; electronic records; SJI; Judicial Council of California; Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
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Public Information
David Smallman of Steinhart & Falconer LLP provides a number of articles and documents concerning hot-topic legal issues, such as Web access and limiting public information in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Tags: public information; law