262 business days.
That’s how long the Department of Education told us it would take for it to respond to our recent records request.
That’s not how freedom of information is supposed to work.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-suing-department-of-education?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Journalism #Media #Education #Journalists #Press #Records #Law
As Idaho Pushes to Reform Its Coroner System, Counties Seek to Make It Less Transparent
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A bill moving forward with bipartisan support is described as a first step to addressing problems highlighted in a state report and by ProPublica. Meanwhile, counties seek to end access to coroners’ records that were key to ProPublica’s findings.
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
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On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
https://www.propublica.org/article/valere-public-schools-superintendent-salary-texas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
New records show that Uvalde school leaders initially planned to defend Police Chief Pete Arredondo after the Robb Elementary shooting.
The details were revealed in over 25,000 pages the district released after a legal fight with news outlets.
https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-pete-arredondo-new-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
SIGUR ROS
Ágætis Byrjun (A Good Beginning)
2019 Europe 2xLP reissue
20th Anniversary Edition
I wouldn’t classify myself as a huge fan of SIGUR ROS.
In fact, this record is the only one of theirs I’ve ever liked.
I have great memories of this album from my time living and working in NYC, especially in 2000.
Riding on the subway with this in my ears, walking to work in Times Square in the rain, drunk in the back of cabs whilst trying to work my way back to Brooklyn at 4am from whatever horrible party.
Back then, living in NYC WAS like being at a horrible late night party. You’re nauseous, sick to your stomach, you’ve had a headache since you’ve gotten there… but you don’t want to leave, because you’re afraid you’ll miss the party.
No other album from that time apart from Mogwai’s Come On Die Young is more representative of my time there.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #records #vintage #retro #physicalmedia #analog #cratedigging #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #rare #art
ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.
#News #Education #Law #USPolitics #Journalism #Media #FOIA #Records
At ProPublica, we file a lot of public records requests.
But since the start of the second Trump administration, writes news apps developer Al Shaw, getting public records has become a “Kafkaesque” process of bounced emails and broken portals.
https://www.propublica.org/article/foia-requests-responses?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Accountability #Journalism #Media #Records #Data #Government #Trump
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On 23 June 2026, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued “NARA Notice 2026-037: Closure of NARA Facilities” to all employees.
THEY WANT TO CLOSE
* the National Archives at Chicago/Chicago Federal Records Center (FRC) and
* the National Archives at San Francisco/San Bruno FRC,
* plus move records from the Seattle Federal Records Center.
#NARA #NationalArchives
#USNationalArchives #Records
#RecordsAccess #Geneadons
#GovernmentRecords
Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records
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The university, whose 1980s rape crisis figured prominently in a ProPublica article, committed to support survivors at “every step of the process.” Now it’s in court to stop police from sharing many records with a student who was assaulted in 1987.
https://www.propublica.org/article/syracuse-sexual-assault-lawsuit-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #University #College #Students #SexualAssault #Law #Lawsuit #Transparency #Records
