Promoting community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources
Contributed by Eric Wadud and Prue Breitrose
Edited by Bill Berkowitz and Kate Nagy
In order to...
We need
Where to look?
When?
Disprove the city engineer's accusations on over-budgeted constructions
Written proof of the transactions (receipts, bills)
Witnesses
City archives
Constructors records
By the end of the fiscal year
Prove that the bank is withholding information on whom it lent money to
Documented proof of loans
Governmental archives
End of the month
Show that the mayor candidate has been sued for not paying taxes on land
Copy of the law suit
The person who sued the candidate
Court records
Phone directory
By next week
Prove that the state representative is using public funds for private use
Find records of his sources of income
Receipts of the representative's purchases
Government files
Find corporate registrations
Before elections
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