Yesica Prado
Co-founder
Yesica is a photojournalist and advocate. She leads the project’s field reporting, photography and video.
Authors
The people who request the records, take agencies to court and report on what comes out.
Robbie Powelson
Co-founder
Robbie is a law student and advocate. He leads the project’s public records requests and its self-represented court filings.
Ethics
We follow the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics, with one exception: we do not adopt its guidance to avoid political and other outside activities that may compromise impartiality or credibility.
Conventional ideas of neutrality can reflect dominant institutional values. Journalists whose lived experiences, backgrounds, or identities diverge from those values have too often been labeled “non-neutral,” delegitimized, or excluded. We evaluate journalism by its accuracy, transparency, and fairness—not by a journalist’s identity or outside activities. We make no apology for standing up for the communities we come from.