Paperwrenching 101
A Civic Guide to Government Accountability
A handbook for making oneself a formal, procedural pain in the ass.
- Mapping jurisdiction and the escalation roadmap
- Filing federal, state and local records requests
- Testing exemptions, redactions and privilege
- Spotting records and open-meetings violations
- Writing letters with legal teeth
- Filing a public-records lawsuit without a lawyer
- Sample filings, worksheets, glossary and state-by-state reference