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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - Posts

FOI story tip: Find government plagiarism through Google

Here's a great tip for finding plagiarism within government: Put quoted passages in Google from government reports to find plagiarism by our leaders. I never thought of this as a story idea until I saw the June 11 story by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

School superintendent contract ruled public in Illinois

The 2nd District Illinois Appellate Court ruled that Community Unit School District 200 must provide the contract for a former superintendent, according to a story by the Naperville Sun. A citizen sued in 2006 after the district refused to release a copy