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Formerly SECRET memo shows how the Air Force investigated UFO sightings
In the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified archives is a formerly SECRET memo, dated February 17th, 1967, from the Chief of the CIA’s Technical Intelligence Division entitled “Photo Analysis of UFO Photography.” That memo served as a response to a request by the Deputy Director of The National Photographic Interpretation Center to analyze photographic evidence of what was purported to be an unidentified flying object.

Coaches’ contracts are just a records request away
Though you may not be able to get their plays, it can be pretty straight forward to see how much college coaches are paid.

The Denver Police’s field guide to Juggalos
Back in 2010, Deputy Chris Pratt of Denver Police’s Gang/Intelligence Unit got fed up with his department’s lack of operational knowledge regarding the threat posed by the vicious street gang known as “Juggalos.” Pratt put together a guide on the “fanatical followers” of Insane Clown Posse. And now, thanks to public records, you too can know what it means to be “down with the clown.”

While California is teaching inmates to code, other states ban them from teaching themselves
Lists of banned books acquired by MuckRock through public records requests show that Ohio and Michigan prisons ban books that aim to teach computer programming skills. Their decisions to ban educational texts related to programming, alongside erotica and literature published by neo-nazi groups, are in stark contrast with practices in other states and countries, where prisons include coding in educational programs.

Banning Black Liberation: Michigan prisoners are barred from reading Frantz Fanon
Michigan Department of Correction’s 60 page long list of books banned in state prisons, acquired by MuckRock through a public records request, includes 43 that are prohibited for “advocating racial supremacy.” These titles include Mein Kampf, The Turner Diaries, and, alarmingly, Black Skin, White Masks, by post-colonial theorist Frantz Fanon. Michigan DOC’s ban on an important anti-colonial text is one reminder of the inconsistent, and potentially biased, book banning practices that exist in prisons across the United States.
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Clawson Public Schools Surveillance Contract
Carlton Purvis sent this request to the Clawson Public Schools of Michigan
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Local level SAEC polices/data (Muskegon County Sheriff, Michigan)
D Smith sent this request to the Muskegon County Sheriff of Muskegon, MI
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Oakland Public Schools Surveillance Contract for Clawson
Carlton Purvis sent this request to the Oakland Public Schools of Michigan
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Carlton Purvis sent this request to the Oakland Public Schools of Michigan