The Texas Data Exchange (TDEx) was created by Gov. Rick Perry's Homeland Security office as a way to coordinate data from all of the state's law enforcement agencies, News 8 Austin reports. The database, brought to light by an Observer investigation, may already include information on at least a million Texans. "What is most striking, and disturbing, about the database is that it is not being run by the state's highest law enforcement agency," the Observer's Jake Bernstein writes. "Instead, control of TDEx, and the power to decide who can use it, resides in the governor's office." According to News 8, the governor's office originally claimed that the database was under supervision by state law enforcement.
The Lafayette, La., alt-weekly was given the Freedom of Information award by the Louisiana Press Association "for its exposure of a questionable land swap deal being proposed by the University of Louisiana in Lafayette," according to a press release (PDF file). Judges of the award called senior editor Leslie Turk's coverage "passionate and vigorous," the Weekly reports. The paper won a total of 20 first place honors in the Association's annual awards -- in categories ranging from investigative reporting to best advertising idea to best website.
In an overview of the Seattle blogosphere's best and brightest, the Post-Intelligencer says the Slog -- the "chatty little sister to The Stranger" -- is one of the city's most popular blogs. The key to the Slog's success? "The diversity of topics and seemingly incessant posting ... gets readers checking back," the P-I says, citing the blog's 725,000 page views in March and 3,000 RSS subscribers.
Jared Ferrie's September story about the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka has been named a finalist in the Canadian Association of Journalists' annual awards for outstanding investigative journalism. Winners will be announced May 26.
Last week, the new board of the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) began freeing young inmates as part of the reform ushered in by the Observer's February investigation of sexual abuse at TYC prisons. TYC spokesman Jim Hurley tells the Dallas Morning News the agency plans on releasing 473 juveniles to family members or guardians. In what could be a sign of things to come, the attorney for one of the released prisoners plans on suing the state agency, the News reports.
Jerry Saltz, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism, will start at New York in April, the New York Observer reports. Saltz joined the Voice in 1998. "Jerry is one of the city's most well-respected critics," Voice editor Tony Ortega says in a staff memo. "I know he'll continue doing outstanding work for his new editors just as he's done at the Voice for so long."
On Monday, Brian Parks will take over the post vacated when Joy Press recently left for Salon. During his previous 13-year tenure with the alt-weekly, Parks was a copy editor, copy chief and senior editor. He left in 2003 to work on his playwriting career. More recently, Parks has helped the Voice by providing "backup editing for various parts of the paper," editor Tony Ortega says in a staff memo.
Maggie Shnayerson began her tenure at the Voice in January, long after media coverage of the alt-weekly had soured. The Dartmouth grad "has handled the less-than-placid situation with an aplomb that belies the fact that she is only 25," PR Web says. She originally wanted to be a reporter, but took a communications position at the New York Sun in 2003, which eventually led her to the Voice. Shnayerson seems unphased by the incessantly negative coverage of the post-merger Voice. "You're doing something right if people are shooting at you," she says.
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