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Friday, August 29, 2008 12:17 PM

Use public records to go beyond "ratemycop.com" to rate your cops

A Web site, ratemycop.com, started a year ago, allows anyone to anonymously rate individual police officers in their communities. You can find all sorts of interesting comments, such as, "Swaggers like John Wayne but has the muscle of Olive Oil. Causes
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Friday, August 29, 2008 11:55 AM

That time of year again: University student government meeting violations

Every fall when a new crop of student leaders start meeting at universities we run into violations of open meeting laws, usually out of ignorance not arrogance, and it's up to student journalists to help educate student leaders to the law. The Daily Campus
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Friday, August 29, 2008 11:49 AM

Kentucky college students win access to more complete police reports

Congratulations to journalism students at Eastern Kentucky University for getting access to more complete university police reports. The Kentucky attorney general issued an opinion siding with the student newspaper, the Progress, saying the university
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Friday, August 29, 2008 11:18 AM

Censored by school administration? Start your own Web site

Kudos to journalism students at Quinnipiac University for standing against a heavy-handed administration by leaving the school paper and starting their own independent news Web site, the Quad News, as reported through SPJ member news this week. Here's
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