Tag: freedom of information law
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Access to Data Enables Journalists To Speak Truth to Power
By Gianna Canevari When students in Prof. Rob Miraldi’s Muckraking Journalism class wanted to expose the flaws in the end-of-semester Student Evaluations of Instruction (SEIs), they utilized a little-known but powerful law. After repeated requests to access SEIs and proving that the evaluations were in fact public documents, the students were granted access to two…