Investigative · INVESTIGATIVE_002
What record sits behind the answer from each public body — City, DA, and APD — and how did one neighbor housing dispute become a three-agency records audit?
A single housing dispute now sits across three records files: the City of Albany, the Linn County DA, and the Albany Police Department. Each file answers a different question. None of them, alone, answers the public one.
The City file asks how records intake works. The DA file asks how a public-records denial is reviewed. The APD file asks what was searched, by whom, and when.
Read together, the three files describe a system. Read separately, each looks like a paperwork problem.
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