Bureacrats not known for creativity suddenly become Leanardo da Vincis when it comes to dodging open records requests. Taxpayer funded Massachusetts Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams endeared themselves to the population of Watertown with their warrantless house-to-house searches for … Continued

Foreign trained doctors are frequently found in APS elderly kidnapping cases. Since some hospitals are saving money by employing foreign trained staff, their presence may simply be a coincidence rather than an indication of a deeper problem. However we are … Continued

Pamela and Douglas Allen of Victoria, BC made the fatal mistake of getting old and having resources. The “caring professionals” of the Vancouver Island Health Authority have diagnosed both with “dementia” and had them involuntarily committed to the nut house … Continued

In a year of budget cuts, DPS is whining about the cost of publishing the Sex Offender Registry. According to one of their spokesmen, eliminating the registry could save $3 million a year. The Open Records Project published the first … Continued

A society might be more trusting if citizens could see the tax returns of all their fellow taxpayers. Norway is doing exactly this. To be complete, Norway might also publish the citizens receiving taxpayer funded services. Some possibilities ramifications to … Continued

Those of us who tackle the taxpayer funded bureacracies often experience the arrogance and hypocrisy of so called civil servants first hand. A New York activist who goes by the handle “Jimmy Justice” captures bureacratic arrogance and hypocrisy on video … Continued

Enron avoided public scrutiny of many of its shady business dealings by placing them out of public view in off balance sheet entities. Now the employees of Washington taxpayers are using a similar ruse to place their activities out of … Continued

The Houston Chronicle has posted a computerized database of 81,000 public employees of various local entities including City of Houston, Harris County, and the Houston Independent School District. Some readers have objected to the publication of names and salaries as … Continued

Leroy Schad molested an 11 year old boy. Now District Judge Ron Svaty has sentenced him to five years of probation and house arrest, and ordered him to prominently post signs declaring his sex offender status Schad said the loneliness … Continued

Government bureacracies implement a standard set of dodges to avoid the accountability that comes from disclosure. In its dealings with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), The Advocate newspaper has been the victim of two of the most common ploys to … Continued