#investigative-files

#investigative-files

John Kaehny has written and successfully lobbied for the passage of state and New York City laws related to government transparency and accountability, including the first open data law in the world in 2012.

The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office must comply with subpoenas issued by the county's civilian oversight board as part of a whistleblower investigation into alleged misconduct, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

Owens described how Infowars aimed to create a cinematic experience, stating, 'We would go out there, we would shoot videos like we were in the weeds, we were showing what was really going on. But it was nonsense. It was lies.'

Effective discovery requires more than compliance - it requires strategy. Litigators can balance expansive discovery rights and privacy concerns without slowing cases down through practical, results-focused approaches that consider proportionality, electronically stored information management, and the specific discovery rules applicable to their jurisdiction.

On the 10th day of the search for Nancy Guthrie, reporters camped outside of the missing woman's home noticed a strange man strut right up to the front door. It had been more than a week since the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie had disappeared, and authorities had just announced they had a new lead from Ring footage of what looked like a potential subject attempting to tamper with the doorbell camera on the morning of her disappearance.

They're trying to get as many eyes on [the Epstein Files] and as much public awareness, knowledge, and understanding of this as possible. They built something that the public can use directly, rather than having it be intermediated by journalists, basically having it be in a format that so many people use in their everyday life.

Gotta say it was probably the most boring and least shocking thing I've seen on the internet this week Was surprised by Alicia Keys (which I enjoyed) and Deepak Chopra (which I also enjoyed). There was an enjoyable video of a cat lounging on a computer. The rest was so heavily edited and blacked out that they might have as well not been released.

Another round of Epstein files-approximately three million documents-was released January 30, and this batch included a lot of prominent names. That list included philanthropist and business magnate Bill Gates, entrepreneur Elon Musk, and author, doctor and longevity influencer Peter Attia. They were all allegedly connected to Epstein in different ways, and as a result, their mentions in the documents are varied. But it's their responses that offer lessons to others in the business world about how to respond when faced with a crisis.

There's the possibility that Thomas and I are talking to in Congress to build a bipartisan coalition to say, look, it's not just these three interviews that concern Donald Trump. There has been now reporting that ninety survivor statements have not been released just by a review of these files. And we're not even talking about the redactions. They just have not produced these things.

Nonetheless, this extraordinary, aggressive action is deeply concerning and raises profound questions and concern around the constitutional protections for our work,

Journalism under Trump 2.0 is becoming an increasingly oxymoronic prospect. Even as the industry continues to shrink at depressingly fast speeds and reporting loses ground to social media and AI slop, it remains a profession full of people who want to do real journalism-to tell the stories and share the perspectives that the powerful don't want told. (Everything else is public relations, as the hacky axiom goes.)