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Articles tagged Louisiana (5)

“You can’t even get an officer’s badge number at 25 feet. So there’s no way to hold anyone accountable.”
“When we see a need, we are able to get volunteers. We organize and make it happen, so people feel like they are closer to us.”
Two academics from NYU worry that the old binary system — a court document is either public or it’s not — doesn’t mesh well with a searchable online context, and that protecting access might mean rethinking it.
By recruiting freelancers into an organized corps with a targeted mission, The Lens has improved oversight and accountability on charter school boards.
In a small town in south Louisiana, two weekly newspapers have battled for more than four decades. Not any longer.