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:
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Tipsheet No: 233
"Investigating Local Government" gives a department-by- department run-down of available documents, including the Airport Department, Budget and Finance, Building and Zoning, City Attorney, City Clerks, Civil Service Commission, Community Development, Health Department, Human Resources, Libraries, Parks and Recreation, Police Department, Public Utilities, Public Works, Tax Assessor and Traffic.
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Tipsheet No: 54
The Pulitzer Prize-winner shares documents and sources useful in investigating police brutality cases.
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An aid to locating vital records
Nine-page primer on the use of public documents, including a general guide to how to use and think about public records and a specific list of such records.
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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.
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Tipsheet No: 46
Documents from Freedburg's investigation of the Miami Police Department, which resulted in the indictment of six Miami police officers who beat to death a suspected drug dealer. Includes internal security computer search, inter-office memorandum, emergency medical service report and detailed incident report.
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Exposing Excessive Force in Law Enforcement
Information on how to expose the use of excessive force in law enforcement. Includes samples of documents obtained from the L.A. Office of the Sheriff and the LAPD.