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• Accounting Red Flags

  The first two pages of this tipsheet list different sources of information about corporations, such as SEC filings and the 10-K-Annual Report, and describe what information you can find from each source. The last three pages of the tipsheet list 20 "red flags" to look for in business filings that could indicate potential stories.

  Tags: Securities and Exchange Commission; corporation; tax; corporate fraud; big business; subpoena

  By Andrew Leckey

  2005

• Military Aviation Safety Data

  Employing his experiences in the armed forces into CAR, Richard O’Reilly offers his insights on the analyses of safety data that is available from the Army, Navy and Air Force. Though most of these Access databases are not suitable for ‘quick-hit’ analyses on deadline, they can be well customized if a journalist can spare time to learn and perfect these, says O’Reilly.

  Tags: Army; navy; airforce; Navy Aviation Safety Database; Fighter Wing

  By Richard O'Reilly

  2004

• Watchdogging homeland security, locally

  Dalmer's tipsheet emphasizes the amount of information that can be found in homeland security grant programs, as well as how states determine the allocation of funds. This tipsheet also focuses on finding some context for grant information, as well as how to set up spreadsheets to organize data,

  Tags: State Homeland Security Grant Program; Urban Areas Security Initiative

  By Bert Dalmer

  2004

• Investigating Agriculture: Down on the Farm

  Stapleton provides ways to identify federal agencies that oversee farming. She has tips on understanding the regulations and regulators. The tipsheet tells where data can be obtained regarding violations, fines, penalties and suspensions. Stapleton provides agricultural information on pesticides, comparative analysis, politics, and labor. The tipsheet has links to websites that have important agricultural data. Additionally, the tipsheet has a printout from the U.S. Department of Labor which tells what information this agency collects.

  Tags: agriculture; farmer; pesticide inspector; U.S. Department of Labor; wage and labor disputes; Migrant and Seasonal Workers Protection Act; Farm labor; contracting; transportation; housing regulations; politics; Social Security Administration; Labor; disability; pesticides; EPA's Worker's Protection Standards; United Farm Workers; National Agriculture Workers Survey; Wage and Labor violation data; Census of Agriculture

  By Christine Stapleton

  2004

• Covering Terrorism in Canada

  This is a three-part tipsheet. The first part explains who is a terrorist, the second part is about how today's terrorist groups operate, and the third part gives a list of resources for covering terrorism

  Tags: terrorism; terrorist organizations; security; intelligence; police; immigration; extremist groups; homeland security; Canada

  By Stewart Bell

  2003

• 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.

  Tags: Terrorism; convictions; Department of Justice

  By Mark Fazlollah

  2003

• Tips on tracking terrorism cases

  Fazlollah gives a step by step method to finding terrorism cases in the federal government court system.

  Tags: terrorism; TRAC; PACER; courts

  By Mark Fazlollah

  2003

• Sources and tips on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons threats

  Threats from weapons of mass destruction are more pronounced than ever. Eisler describes some of the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He also includes a hefty list of government, NGO, and academia sources on the subjects.

  Tags: nuclear weapons; dirty bombs; radiological weapons; nuclear regulatory commission; Department of Energy; National Nuclear Security Administration; department of defense; Defense threat reduction information analysis center; nonproliferation; disarmament; IAEA; United Nations; nuclear energy institute; Russia; germs; anthrax; smallpox; nerve agents; sarin; VX; mustard gas; Chemical Weapons Convention; CDC; infectious diseases; global green

  By Peter Eisler

  2003

• 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

  By David Smallman

  2002

• National Defense Authorization Act, 1990; "Principles of Information", Cohen, 1997; FOI Letter, McNamara, 1967

  Yes, there is an ombudsman at the DoD who makes sure that the First Amendment right of military personnel and their families are protected through the Stars and Stripes newspaper. This tipsheet is part of the Act that makes the Stars and Stripes an independent shop, a memo from former Secretary of Defense McNamera reaffirming the public information policy of the DoD from 1967, and the "Principles of Information" Memo from today's DoD.

  Tags: FOIA; Freedom of Information; classified information; public affairs; security classifications; national security

  By None

  2001