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Md. oversight of doctors failing public

Fred Schulte of The (Baltimore) Sun used state records to show that "Maryland's vow to safeguard patients has been undercut by breakdowns in the state system established to oversee doctors." […]
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Bonus costing county millions

Ron Fonger of The Flint Journal used Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act to show that Genessee County employees who qualify for additional pay based on length of service “cost county […]
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Children die in spite of Okla. abuse reports

Ziva Branstetter, Curtis Killman, Nicole Marshall, Omer Gillham and Ginnie Graham of the Tulsa World report in a three-part series on Oklahoma's failure to save at least 30 children who […]
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Taxpayer money used to defend city official

David Josar of The Detroit News used records obtained under Michigan's Freedom of Information Act to find that "Detroit City Clerk Jackie Currie has spent more than $100,000 in taxpayer […]
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Secrecy hides those who prey on children

Andrew Wolfson of The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal reports that "Kentucky shrouds its juvenile courts behind some of the strictest secrecy laws in the nation, requiring the public to accept on […]
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Mayor withholds crime stats

The mayor of Jackson, Miss., has refused to release the city's crime statistics to the City Council. "Under the prior administration of Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr., the crime statistics were […]
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City gives federal money to unqualified homebuyers

John Estus of The Daily O'Collegian at Oklahoma State University found that "Nearly $110,000 in federal funds intended to help poor Stillwater residents buy homes of their own was given […]
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Thousands of serious crimes reported in schools

Jonathan Marino of The Washington Examiner looked into crime in public schools in Montgomery County, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. He found "internal reports, dozens of court records, and […]
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TRAC files suit for release of information

David Burnham and Susan B. Long, co-directors of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, are suing the federal Office of Personnel Management for "unlawfully withholding information it normally provides the public […]
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Requests to seal divorce records on the rise

Tresa Baldas of The National Law Journal reports that corporations are increasingly requesting that judges seal "the divorce records of top executives to protect trade secrets or crucial financial information […]
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