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Ken Schwencke
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Editor of the @propublica news apps team. Super gay.
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New: The NYPD’s public site for tracking officers’ discipline is shockingly unreliable, a ProPublica analysis found. Cases against officers frequently vanish for days — sometimes weeks — at a time.

Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next.
Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next.

The police department’s public site for tracking officers’ discipline is shockingly unreliable, a ProPublica analysis found. Cases against officers frequently vanish for days — sometimes weeks — at a ...

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Happy to hear more about this! We've seen people get good responses (and complete denial reversals) from sending these letters, but we'd be happy to hear what you think we might be missing.

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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Thanks to @propublica.bsky.social & Free Law Project, Americans can search for organizations & people that have paid Supreme Court justices, including travel reimbursements, gifts, & more. Data journalism + financial forms (PDFs!) = the info we need to be self governing.

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We spent the last six months doing a full revamp of Nonprofit Explorer, including big improvements to search, more context on an organization's finances, and lots of back-end updates that will help us keep things up to date. And we just launched the last big feature — email alerts for new filings!

ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer Gets Email Alerts and Other Major Improvements
ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer Gets Email Alerts and Other Major Improvements

We’ve added email alerts, overhauled our search, created better document pages, added charts and much more.

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Better, in many cases!

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ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer is now as good as any commercial app in giving you access to useful information from 990 filings. Check out their latest updates: www.propublica.org/article/nonp...

ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer Gets Email Alerts and Other Major Improvements
ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer Gets Email Alerts and Other Major Improvements

We’ve added email alerts, overhauled our search, created better document pages, added charts and much more.

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Ken Schwencke
@schwanksta.com
Editor of the @propublica news apps team. Super gay.
352 followers56 following10 posts