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  "id": "1995-january-database-library-keeps-growing",
  "slug": "1995-january-database-library-keeps-growing",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1995-january-database-library-keeps-growing.html",
  "year": 1995,
  "month": "January",
  "monthNum": 1,
  "headline": "Database library keeps growing",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "NICAR",
  "summary": "NICAR offers journalists access to multiple government databases including FAA incident reports, FBI crime data, Social Security death records, federal contracts, mortgage disclosure records, OSHA inspections, and gun dealer information for investigative reporting.",
  "keywords": [
    "databases",
    "journalism",
    "investigation"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "NICAR keeps adding to its database library. A partial list includes:\n\nFederal Aviation Administration service difficulty reports that show the history of problems that a plane had before it crashed.\nFBI crime data that allows you to do detailed analysis of crime in your community and state.\nSocial security death records that you can use for stories that go beyond simple listing. The database also permits reporters to circumvent states that have closed their death records.\nFederal procurement contracts. This database can help you discover the impact of cuts in defense spending, or the amount of housing and office space federal agencies rent in your city, or the amount of toilet paper the feds purchased in your community, or the biggest federal contractors in your state.\nHome Mortgage Disclosure Act records that you use to look at disparities in minority lending.\nOSHA inspection safety records that show the most frequently cited employer in your state and what the work safety violations have been.\nFederal gun dealer records that show who is dealing in weapons or that a local police officer moonlights as a provider of guns to criminals.\n\nTo request data, call NICAR at 314-882-0684 or E-Mail us at nicar@muccmail.missouri.edu",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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