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    <i>This is just a sampling of some of the thousands of documents that newsrooms have published with DocumentCloud.  Seen a story that made good use of DocumentCloud? Written one? <a href="javascript:dc.ui.Dialog.contact();">Tell us about it</a> and we'll post it here.
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    <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1222-dcfs-cell-phones-20101222,0,7191601.story"><u>Child welfare agency wastes $514,000 on cellphones</u></a>
    <small><i>Los Angeles Times</i>, December 22, 2010</small>
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    A routine audit of Los Angeles County's <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dcfs-chief-20101214%2C0%2C2546562.story">troubled</a> Department of Children and Family Services found over a thousand phones activated and incurring service charges but not in use by agency personnel, while individual staffers racked up thousands of dollars in personal long distance charges. In addition to reporting on on the audit, <i>LA Times</i> shared the audit itself with readers.<br />
    <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1222-dcfs-cell-phones-20101222,0,7191601.story">Article</a> | <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22840-audit-of-dcfs-cell-phone-use.html">Audit</a>
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    <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/18/report_blasts_pervasive_fraud_in_hiring_at_probation_department/"><u>Pervasive Fraud in Probation Department Hiring</u></a>
    <small><i>Boston Globe</i>, November 18, 2010</small>
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     In May of 2010, <i>Boston Globe</i> reporters took an extensive look at <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/23/at_the_probation_department_patronage_is_job_one/">accusations of patronage</a> in Massachusetts' Probation Department, prompting the state's high court to <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/25/probation_commissioner_suspended/">appoint an independant counsel</a> to investigate the agency's hiring practices and other allegations. The <i>Globe</i> thoroughly annotated that <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/spotlight/probation/ware_report/">337 page report</a> for readers. <br />
     <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/23/at_the_probation_department_patronage_is_job_one/">Accusations</a> | <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/25/probation_commissioner_suspended/">Counsel Appointment</a> | <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/spotlight/probation/ware_report/">Counsel Report</a>
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    <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/somerville-ma/2010-campaign-finance-reports/79/"><u>FOI Request 2009 Somerville Campaign Finance Reports</u></a>
    <small><i>Post Somerville</i> and MuckRock, November 9, 2010</small>
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    <i><a href="http://postsomerville.com/">Post Somerville</a></i> covers local politics in Somerville, MA. It is a labor of love, run by volunteers. They wanted to post municipal campaign finance records for their readers to examine. MuckRock, an innovative little shop will file freedom of information requests on behalf of interested individuals (or organizations). MuckRock helped <i>Post Somerville</i> acquire the records from the City Clerk, but faced with copying charges estimated at $100, the bloggers were not thrilled about paying out of their own pockets for the files. Instead they <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/blog/a-big-thank-you-and-a-small-milestone/">turned to Spot.us</a> to raise the copying fees from their readership. Close to two dozen readers contributed to the copying expenses.<br />
    <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/somerville-ma/2010-campaign-finance-reports/79/#tabs-request">Request</a> | <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/somerville-ma/2010-campaign-finance-reports/79/">Campaign Finance Filings</a><commit_msg>New document features from December, January, February<commit_after><%
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    <i>This is just a sampling of some of the thousands of documents that newsrooms have published with DocumentCloud. Find many more by searching our <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/public">public catalog</a> for <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/public/#search/filter%3A%20published">published documents</a>.</i>
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    <a href="http://documents.latimes.com/ruben-salazar/"><u>The Ruben Salazar Files</u></a>
    <small><i>Los Angeles Times</i>, February 22, 2011</small>
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  <p>In 1970 <NAME> was killed by police while covering an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles. A case rife with controversy, questions, and suspicions, his death became a rallying point in the Mexican American civil rights movement. 40 years later, after <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/09/local/la-me-salazar-20100810">refusing a public records request</a> for documents that might shed some light on the circumstances of his death, Los Angeles County's Sheriff's Department <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/19/local/la-me-0818-salazar-20100819">agreed</a> to turn the files over to the Office of Independent Review. While <i>Los Angeles Times</i> reporters waited for the report, they assembled their own <a href="http://documents.latimes.com/ruben-salazar/">folio</a> of early clippings on <NAME>. Readers can review <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1999/nov/18/local/me-35015">FBI files</a> obtained by <i>the Times</i> in 1999 and <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/29/local/la-me-salazar-20100829">LAPD records</a> on the department's repeated clashes with the journalist as well as a <a href="http://documents.latimes.com/salazar-independent-office-review/">draft of the report</a> prepared by the Office of Independent Review.
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    <a href="http://documents.latimes.com/ruben-salazar/">Files</a> | <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/19/local/la-me-ruben-salazar-20110220/3">Article</a>
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    <a href="http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/flying-cheaper/story/outsourcing-airline-maintenance/"><u>Flying Cheaper</u></a>
    <small>Frontline and Investigative Reporting Workshop, January 18, 2011</small>
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  <p> Following a February 2010 report on flight outsourcing at major airlines, Frontline viewers encouraged the show to take a look at the outsourcing of airline maintenance work. The resulting piece found an unregulated and tight margined maintenance industry. Reporters from Investigative Reporting Workshop and Frontline also found it quite difficult to access information about the airline maintenance industry and federal regulation of it, but what documents they were able to acquire were published right alongside their reporting. Producers at <a href="http://investigativereportingworkshop.org">Investigative Reporting Workshop</a> used <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/help/api">DocumentCloud's API</a> to pull thumbnail images, document titles and short descriptions of each document and automatically assemble an inviting overview of the source material behind their report.
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    <a href="http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/flying-cheaper/story/outsourcing-airline-maintenance/">Article</a> | <a href="http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/documents/flying-cheaper-documents/">Documents</a>
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    <a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/section/wesd"><u>Willamette's Web of Deals</u></a>
    <small><i>Statesman Journal</i>, December 19, 2010</small>
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  <p>Reporter <NAME> used DocumentCloud to organize and annotate hundreds of documents that she accumulated in the course of her 16-month investigation of questionable spending in Willamette, Oregon's regional school district. Her reporting turned up a decade's worth of red flags that had been raised -- and ignored -- in the agency's financial management, adding up to millions of misspent dollars.  <i>Statesman Journal</i> used DocumentCloud to publish the contracts, court filings, and correspondance underpinning Loew's findings. The board charged with overseeing the department claimed to be ignorant of the shenanigans, but the paper's documents suggest that the board was part of the problem.
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    <a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/section/wesd">Special Report</a> | <a href="http://community.statesmanjournal.com/news/wesd/documents/">Documents</a> | <a href="http://community.statesmanjournal.com/news/wesd/web/">Relationship Map</a>
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  <h6>
    <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1222-dcfs-cell-phones-20101222,0,7191601.story"><u>Child welfare agency wastes $514,000 on cellphones</u></a>
    <small><i>Los Angeles Times</i>, December 22, 2010</small>
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  <p>
    A routine audit of Los Angeles County's <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dcfs-chief-20101214%2C0%2C2546562.story">troubled</a> Department of Children and Family Services found over a thousand phones activated and incurring service charges but not in use by agency personnel, while individual staffers racked up thousands of dollars in personal long distance charges. In addition to reporting on on the audit, <i>LA Times</i> shared the audit itself with readers.<br />
    <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1222-dcfs-cell-phones-20101222,0,7191601.story">Article</a> | <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22840-audit-of-dcfs-cell-phone-use.html">Audit</a>
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  <h6>
    <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/18/report_blasts_pervasive_fraud_in_hiring_at_probation_department/"><u>Pervasive Fraud in Probation Department Hiring</u></a>
    <small><i>Boston Globe</i>, November 18, 2010</small>
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  <p>
     In May of 2010, <i>Boston Globe</i> reporters took an extensive look at <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/23/at_the_probation_department_patronage_is_job_one/">accusations of patronage</a> in Massachusetts' Probation Department, prompting the state's high court to <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/25/probation_commissioner_suspended/">appoint an independant counsel</a> to investigate the agency's hiring practices and other allegations. The <i>Globe</i> thoroughly annotated that <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/spotlight/probation/ware_report/">337 page report</a> for readers. <br />
     <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/23/at_the_probation_department_patronage_is_job_one/">Accusations</a> | <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/25/probation_commissioner_suspended/">Counsel Appointment</a> | <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/spotlight/probation/ware_report/">Counsel Report</a>
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    <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/somerville-ma/2010-campaign-finance-reports/79/"><u>FOI Request 2009 Somerville Campaign Finance Reports</u></a>
    <small><i>Post Somerville</i> and MuckRock, November 9, 2010</small>
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  <p>
    <i><a href="http://postsomerville.com/">Post Somerville</a></i> covers local politics in Somerville, MA. It is a labor of love, run by volunteers. They wanted to post municipal campaign finance records for their readers to examine. MuckRock, an innovative little shop will file freedom of information requests on behalf of interested individuals (or organizations). MuckRock helped <i>Post Somerville</i> acquire the records from the City Clerk, but faced with copying charges estimated at $100, the bloggers were not thrilled about paying out of their own pockets for the files. Instead they <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/blog/a-big-thank-you-and-a-small-milestone/">turned to Spot.us</a> to raise the copying fees from their readership. Close to two dozen readers contributed to the copying expenses.<br />
    <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/somerville-ma/2010-campaign-finance-reports/79/#tabs-request">Request</a> | <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/somerville-ma/2010-campaign-finance-reports/79/">Campaign Finance Filings</a>
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