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Shawn Musgrave

@ShawnMusgrave

Shawn Musgrave is a reporter and digital producer at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit outlet affiliated with Boston University and WGBH. He previously worked as a reporter at MuckRock, an online investigative outlet focused on government transparency and freedom of information.

The State-by-State Approach to Getting National Data With FOIA

The State-by-State Approach to Getting National Data With FOIA

When an investigation into military equipment distributed to police departments stalled at the national level, going local helped free the data