On the records
Often, I start my mornings with a call to police to get an update of some incident or another. Here's the challenge: Information sometimes seems lost in the ether. Even if an investigation is ongoing, police have to release the ...

Round two. Ding!
I'm in day two of trying to get an accident report from the Department of Public Safety. That means my day goes something like this: make a phone call. Wait. Repeat. Wait. Make a phone call. Repeat. And again. And ...

There ought to be a law....
But wait! There is! NPR had good news for me when I woke up (too early) Jan. 1. One of Dubya's last big decisions of 2007 was give the Freedom of Information Act a shot of performance-enhancing language. As a ...

What this blog is all about
Unfortunately, a friend's death gave me the idea for this blog. You might have read Kevin's obit in the Dec. 27 Advocate. http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/793/story/173087.html Rebecca, another reporter (the one with the pet blog), immediately wanted to find Kevin's cat. She didn't ...