On April 25, 2019, I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for public information to the Charlottesville Police Department. The request was submitted through Muckrock, a website designed to promote greater government transparency and make filing a FOIA request easier for the public. I purchased a Muckrock Professional account for $40, which gives me up to 20 FOIA requests through the site every month and includes a feature which detects if you are filing from out-of-state and then submits the requests through a group of volunteer proxy filers. A proxy filer is someone who takes the place of the actual filer, and in this case, the proxy filer appears to be a Virginia resident who has successfully submitted previous FOIA requests to the Charlottesville Police Department with no issues. Muckrock also includes a feature where you are able to view the actual email data. The email data for this particular requests ap...
Twitter has locked me out of my account, allegedly for violating their terms of service. I posted the following three screenshots in a tweet this evening which have the journalists name and phone number redacted. Intact was a mailing address to the Washington Post. Twitter provided no specific details about why my account was locked, but I am assuming it is because of the Washington Post mailing address. Here is all Twitter provided to explain the locking of my account. I appealed this decision. Twitter's decision to lock my account makes no sense. A simple search for the address on Twitter yields countless tweets containing the same information. There was nothing threatening about my tweets. This is just a sampling. I did not screenshot all of the countless tweets containing the same address. Twitter has some splaining to do. Twit...
This is kind of unbelievable. An unknown employee controlling the Twitter account for the Charlottesville Police Department "liked" a tweet in reply to me from a Virginia resident who offered to file Freedom of Information Act requests by proxy on my behalf. The tweet was "liked" on March 15, 2019. It seems logical that Tyler Hawn would have been controlling the departments Twitter account during this timeframe. I sought comment from the Charlottesville Police Department yesterday as to who might have been controlling the account when the post was "liked". Predictably, the "spokesperson" for the Charlottesville Police Department was at a loss for words. I followed up with questions regarding the legality of the requirements made of me by city officials to verify circulation of my online magazine within the Commonwealth. According to multiple media organizations in Charlottesville, none have ...
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