July 30th, 2005 | by Matt | published in Broadcast, Fed Data
Caught this on the radio yesterday: Marketplace and American Radio Works went back and looked at Congressional travel records and found that all the reporting done on the freebies has had an affect: Congress is sticking around Washington more, and taking fewer handout trips. The analysis was done by American RadioWorks with The Center for [...]
May 30th, 2005 | by Derek | published in Broadcast, State Data
Chris Halsne of KIRO Team 7 analyzed Washington state’s 145,000 outstanding arrest warrants, finding that “only 18 percent of them allow officers to actually make unconditional arrests.” The rest involve contacting the originating police agency, which can allow the person detained to be let go. “A growing number of cities and counties (outside of King [...]
May 11th, 2005 | by Derek | published in Broadcast, FOIA
Chris Halsne of KIRO 7 Eyewitness News used public records to show that “Washington taxpayers spend $2.8 million each year for transportation of heroin addicts to treatment clinics that’s over and above the cost of serving up counseling and doses of methadone.” The money typically goes for taxi rides to clinics, although the state does [...]
April 5th, 2005 | by Derek | published in Broadcast, FOIA
Chris Halsne of KIRO7-TV in Seattle used Washington’s Open Records Act to uncover a program in which “the King County Medical Examiner’s Office has been harvesting brains from the corpses of mentally ill clients and quietly trading the tissue for money.” The transactions have generated more than $1 million from The Stanley Medical Research Institute, [...]
March 25th, 2005 | by Derek | published in Broadcast, DIY
Dale Russell of Atlanta’s Fox5 News found that Boy Scout rosters for the Atlanta area “appear to grossly overstate how many inner-city kids the Atlanta area Boy scouts serve. These records are used to convince people to donate money to the Boy Scouts.” While official rosters show nearly 9,000 scouts in Atlanta, school visits by [...]