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The open reporting reviewed shows ICE is advertising signing/retention bonuses up to $50,000 as part of a large recruitment push, but none of the items examined contain the agency’s full, explicit rep...
The , folded into the FY2013 National Defense Authorization Act, changed one narrow but symbolically charged rule: it removed the long-standing legal bar that had effectively prevented certain U.S. go...
To corroborate the viral Sasha (Sascha) Riley audio allegations would require concrete, publicly available records and verifiable witness testimony that go beyond the unverified phone interviews curre...
No reporting in the provided document set identifies any specific DOJ-released Epstein file that names ; the public coverage and DOJ statements about the release emphasize references to other prominen...
Public, government-operated tools exist to confirm whether someone served or is on active duty, but they differ sharply in scope: the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) and its DEERS/verification ser...
is primarily a records-search exercise using the / for separations and channels for current-status checks, but privacy rules and procedural steps mean full personnel files are rarely available to stra...
There are no official Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) records in the provided reporting that enumerate how many officers have left the force since January 2026 on a month-by-month basis; the avail...
(BWC) footage can be released to the public when it has been preserved and is not shielded by statutory exemptions—most commonly through the (FOIA) or agency‑specific expedited‑release policies—subjec...
graduated from the in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree, but public records tied to that commencement do not show him graduating with honors and there is no publicly available transcript documenting his c...
ICE maintains and records some race and ethnicity fields in its detention records, but those fields are unevenly collected, inconsistently coded, and not regularly published in a way that would reliab...
The "Epstein files" is the informal label for the trove of investigative, court and other government documents collected in federal and related probes of Jeffrey Epstein, now being produced to the pub...
The documents provided show the CyberTipline’s scale— reports in 2023 and in 2024—but do not supply a clear, attributable count of how many CyberTipline referrals marked as “” in its internal law‑enfo...
Researchers seeking to identify rely on a mix of public records, agency FOIA libraries, tailored FOIA requests, and administrative appeals or litigation when denials occur; these techniques must navig...
or local draft‑board records from the 1960s–1970s is not straightforward: the only compels federal agencies to disclose records in their custody, and many relevant personnel and medical files (especia...
Lisa Noelle Voldeng’s reporting and the viral audio she published assert that a circa‑2010 military report and attendant child‑pornography materials—stored in a U.S. military base permanent record and...
Privacy oversight for used with Enhanced Driver’s Licenses (EDLs) exists largely through agency Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and program-specific privacy processes; those assessments are publishe...
The DOJ’s January 30, 2026 tranche of Epstein-related material included millions of pages and media and contained email correspondence between and that multiple outlets excerpted, but none of the news...
treats large document dumps not as immediate prosecutable evidence but as raw leads that must be validated through contemporaneous documentation, chain-of-custody controls, and legal processes before ...
is subject to ordinary preservation and discovery rules: a duty to preserve arises when a party reasonably foresees litigation or an investigation and applies to electronically stored information on p...
that can document medical treatment for federal officers injured during enforcement actions exist, but they are scattered across workers’ compensation files, personnel and medical records repositories...