Blood On Their Hands
When you need information from the government, FOIA and your state’s open records laws are your most important tool. FOIA is short for Freedom of Information Act, a federal law that ensures citizens have access to government records. Each state also has its own laws...
Sandy Smith found herself mostly on her own as she tried to understand what happened to her son, Stephen Smith, in July 2015. With conflicting reports between the investigative agencies, apparent disagreement between officers and the medical examiner, and the...
When Mandy and Liz left Sandy Smith’s home in 2019, there was a massive amount of information that needed to be broken down, contextualized, and further expounded on. Sandy had been trying for more than four years at that point to find out what had happened to...