You also may want to include a box that explains the federal Freedom of Information Act and information that is available because of it. Here is an example of stories printed in newspapers across the country because of FOIA:

• Military prisoners convicted of crimes such as murder, rape and child molesting continued to receive paychecks, although their victims could not get restitution. Dayton (Ohio) Daily News.
• Thousands of bridges in New York state were not inspected on time and a large number were deficient. Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard.
• An analysis of hospital bills in Georgia showed major discrepancies in what patients paid for services at different facilities, and the charges bore little relation to costs. Atlanta Journal & Constitution.
• Hundreds of military weapons and hundreds of pounds of military explosives are stolen each year and wind up in the hands of criminals and others such as white supremacists and are used in assaults or killings. The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.
• As Washington's homicide rate rose to record levels, no one was held accountable for 75 percent of the city's murders from 1988 to 1990. The Washington Post.
• Many health care providers were benefiting from -- and sometimes recommending -- fraudulent actions by Medicaid patients. The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader.
• While public health officials were contending that the blood supply was safer than ever, patients received transfusions of HIV- or hepatitis-infected blood as well as mislabeled, contaminated or mistested blood. U.S. News & World Report.
• Military personnel were injured or killed in accidents relating to their use of night vision goggles, although the Pentagon attributed the accidents to "pilot error." The Orange County (Calif.) Register.