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Secrecy obstructs reporting

Article Abstract:

Investigative reporters who want to investigate the executive clemency process in their states can take lessons from a report by the Atlantic City Press on New Jersey's executive clemency process. Reporters wishing to write on executive clemency should first take a look at the process in the state they want to investigate. They should approach prosecutors and judges as possible sources of information on the process. Another important source of information are documents on executive clemency.

Research, Laws, regulations and rules, Sentences (Criminal procedure), Powers and duties, Governors, Pardon, Pardons

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Reviewing timecards for double-dipping police

Article Abstract:

Many sheriff deputies serving in New York's Orange County office submitted simultaneous timecards to Orange County and the community of Montgomery between 1997 and 1999. The investigation disclosed 9 such officers had been doubly paid for a total of 234 hours with personnel involved in 5 law enforcement agencies.

New York, Ethical aspects, Police, Police officers

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