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Denton answered my clarification.

It still didn’t clarify the records.

The City first said there were “no releasable responsive records that are considered non-confidential.”

So I asked a simple question:

No records found — or records found and withheld?

Denton’s November 9 reply said the PIA doesn’t require it to answer questions and told me to file another request.

🔒 On Patreon, I posted the full paper trail, including the November 3 response, my clarification, and Denton’s reply.

If you want to see the actual records fight before the finished story exists, join Insider:

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“No releasable records” is not the same as “no records exist.”

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Harlandale sent me a reprimand for Kimberly Rios.

Then I checked the TCOLE ID.

It doesn’t match.

The Rios records I’m working from identify her as PID 1628271.

The reprimand Harlandale produced identifies PID 467637.

That doesn’t prove the record is wrong.

It means the discrepancy needs to be resolved before I rely on it.

🔒 I posted the full records trail on Patreon, including the follow-up asking Harlandale to explain the mismatch and the targeted request for the investigation outcome.

If you want to see the reporting process before the finished story exists, join Insider:

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Sometimes the most important thing a document tells you is:

Ask another question.

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I already have Jaime Castro’s Permanent Voluntary Surrender.

I’m still not ready to publish the story.

Dallas estimated $418.50 for one audiovisual request, so I narrowed the first production to the $13.50 911 audio and asked for an inventory of the remaining recordings.

Meanwhile, other personnel, investigation, separation, and TCOLE-related records are still part of the reporting trail.

There’s a difference between:

having enough to make a video

and

having enough to tell the story correctly.

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A public-records request doesn’t always have to be denied to die.

Sometimes it just gets administratively closed.

That happened in one of my recent TCOLE requests. No final denial. No AG ruling. No complete production.

So I filed it again.

📄 I broke down how that happens — and what to do next — in a FREE Records Guide on Patreon:

https://t.co/lNOKs5U2XD

Sometimes the process is:

Request → partial release → withholding → deadline → closure → start again

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I had to file the Chapman records request again.

TCOLE said case 25-4124 was open, but the first request was administratively closed before the remaining records were produced.

So I re-filed it.

🔒 On Patreon, I’m showing the part you usually don’t see in the finished video:

the original request, the missed deadline, the closure, the replacement request, and exactly what I’m still trying to obtain.

If you want to follow the investigation while it’s still being built — not just after the story is finished — join Insider:

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Sometimes public-records reporting is:

Request → partial release → withholding → deadline → closure → start again.

So I started again.

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TCOLE called Weinstein case 25-6380 open.

Then it said the report was closed.

So what record explains the change?

I filed a new request for the closure record, disposition, hold history, and resulting license status.

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“Closed” is a status.
I want the records that explain what it actually meant.

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Permanent surrender.

But no TCOLE enforcement case?

Michael P. Palitz’s licensing record shows a Permanent Voluntary Surrender.

When I asked TCOLE for the complaint, referral, investigation, enforcement case, findings, recommendation, and disposition behind it, TCOLE said those records do not exist.

The agency says it received surrender documentation tied to an agreement with Harris County, but had no active/open TCOLE case involving Palitz.

📄 FREE Document Drop:
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The finished accountability reporting stays public.

— Rowan Paine

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Gilbert Timeline Gap

Appointed July 1. Reinstated July 7.

TCOLE records show a six-day gap in DeLawrence Gilbert’s Talty timeline.

The dates are documented.

The reason for the difference is not.

🔒 I posted both source records here:
👉 https://t.co/lNOKs5U2XD

The goal isn’t to guess. It’s to prove what happened.

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Hondo $30 Records Bill

My Hondo request involving Sky Lynn Cisnero is now at the invoice stage, covering records tied to her separation, investigation, TCOLE notifications, and more.

🔒 New Patreon research update:
👉 https://t.co/lNOKs5Tv85

Records work adds up fast.

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Free Document Drop

TCOLE suspended DeLawrence Gilbert’s license for 4 months, followed by 8 months probation, over an F-5 reporting violation.

I posted the actual order as a FREE Document Drop.
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The finished reporting stays public.

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Thin Blue Lies Media is now on Patreon.

Public-records requests, documents, research, developing leads, and the work behind the finished videos all take time and money.

You can join for free or support the work with a paid membership.

The important accountability reporting stays public.

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A police-union president said YouTube allowing auditor monetization “needs to stop.”

Then accountability creators started getting demonetized.

We found the pressure. We found the enforcement.

What we didn’t find is the communication proving one caused the other.

Timing is not tracing. 👀

#PoliceAccountability #FirstAmendment

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Police unions publicly targeted auditor monetization. Then multiple accountability creators reported YouTube demonetization.

Did one cause the other?

We found pressure, a Google subpoena — and a missing link.

Timing is not tracing. 👀

#PoliceAccountability #FirstAmendment

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▶️ Watch the full Phoenix/Tempe breakdown:
https://t.co/HXmuo2vVFO
The charges remain pending. Allegations are not convictions.

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No bodycam. No dispatch call. No report. 👀

GPS helped expose an alleged off-the-books Phoenix police stop. Now Phoenix is auditing the entire South Mountain Precinct.

No bodycam does not mean no evidence.

#PhoenixPolice #GhostStops

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Police killed one-year-old HeeHaw in his own pasture.

The chief confirms bodycam exists—and he’s watched it.

What happened before the officer fired? 👀

Preserve the footage. Release the facts.

Watch the full report

#HeeHaw #PoliceAccountability

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FULL INVESTIGATION ON THE CHANNEL ▶️ 🎥 https://t.co/HXmuo2vVFO

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🚨 Phoenix police confirm two officers conducted a traffic stop and used force—but filed no force report and did not activate their bodycams.

Where are the vehicle GPS, Taser, dispatch and Flock records?

Phoenix police are investigating Phoenix police. 👀

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Watch the child’s foot.

A Royse City officer pushes a woman holding a child—and the child’s shoe comes off.

All charges were dropped the next morning. The officer was placed on leave, but the bodycam remained unreleased as of the news reports. 👀

#PoliceAccountability #RoyseCity

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🚨 FULL BREAKDOWN: https://t.co/TO2oHSUZwI

Every charge was dropped the following morning. As of the news reports, the officer’s name and body-camera footage had not been released.

Should Royse City release the complete footage now? 👇

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WATCH THE CHILD’S SHOE. 👀

A Royse City officer pushes a woman holding a child—and the child’s shoe comes off. The encounter also shows a mother held by her dreadlocks.

Police arrested her and her daughter, then dropped every charge the next morning.

What justified this force?