Hi, I'm Tony.

I'm a journalist, photographer, public records researcher, and web engineer.

‘Abolish ICE’ was a top submission in Minnesota’s snowplow naming contest
Minneapolis Police union fought to keep officer who told Somali American teens he was proud U.S. troops killed ‘you folk’ during Black Hawk Down
The Bad Cops: How Minneapolis protects its worst police officers until it’s too late
After last-minute court ruling, Facebook ‘misinformation’ policies block Minnesota election officials from alerting voters to stop mailing ballots
Lawsuit seeks court order prohibiting armed ex-soldiers outside Minnesota polling places
Class action lawsuit seeks end to police sweeps of Minneapolis homeless encampments
Mail-in ballot witness requirement waived for Minnesota’s November election
Personal information of Minnesota law enforcement, critical infrastructure personnel published online after massive hack
Minnesota police told to hide online footprints during George Floyd protests
Easier absentee mail voting coming to August primary election amid pandemic
2019 in Photographs
Protesters demand street safety improvements after Lyndale Avenue pedestrian death
How do the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them.
Minnesota DFL candidates for governor talk transparency
Minneapolis elected official Carol Becker registers trademark for name of critic’s blog
BCA investigators published troves of sensitive data from cell phones of Thurman Blevins and police officers
Listen to St. Anthony Police voicemails about the Philando Castile shooting
Minneapolis officials push for earlier release of body-camera footage in police shooting case
Minnesota Supreme Court: Hennepin County Sheriff illegally denied access to public records
WeTransfer Plus security failure lets anyone send files using your company's account and branding
Using domain registrations, security certificates, and Shodan to break news
Stolen database of cyberattack-for-hire service leads FBI to suspects
Lawsuit: Domestic violence survivor changed identities, but Minnesota driver's license database failed to protect her
Minnesota woman finds tracking devices in car after obtaining protection order against ex
Secrecy as Minnesota Fringe Festival resolves censorship lawsuit
Remarks at Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards
Metro Transit's secret arrest and deportation
Fahrenheit 511: Minneapolis Police's Super Bowl Command Center
If government expedites your public records request, you might be getting played
4/20 is a pretty bad day to forget about your journalistic principles
Minnesota Court of Appeals upholds freedom of information win against Hennepin County Sheriff
Is a war on live flight tracking coming?
Minnesota Supreme Court rules Sheriff Rich Stanek can continue concealing records on facial recognition technology
Minnesota judge signs a search warrant for personal information on anyone who Googled someone's name
Dan McConnell and Becky Boland Must Resign as Minneapolis DFL Officers
Minnesota House Republicans rally around “profiteering from protest” bill
You might win in court, but you'll never win on Google
Hennepin County Sheriff circumvents state to expand facial recognition database
Code, speech, and encryption must not be casualties of war
Using geotagged photos to plan sight-seeing
Facebook is terrible at spam reporting and enforcement
Charging for search and rescue is bad public policy
Mapped: Minnesota Permit to Carry holders
“Plane hacking” – Your white hat is dirty
It's really difficult to get your medical records in a usable format
Government websites shouldn't have downtime or hours of operation
25 things ‘open data’ has powered in your life
This is what happens when housing data isn't open and accessible
Health insurance exchange technology barriers are barriers to coverage
Health 2.0 SF Code-a-thon: Power to the Patient
Are ‘open government’ laws and individual privacy mutually exclusive?
Using Mechanical Turk to digitize paper records and reports
Why campaign finance data should be open, accessible, and machine-readable
IFTTT for Healthcare
Minneapolis Health Inspection and Food Code Violation App
National Day of Civic Hacking: innovation, with or without data
Government data and personal values: tweeting DWI arrests
Balancing privacy versus transparency
Design outside the bubble
Mugshot websites: profiteering via open government laws
Minneapolis Police release 2.1 million license plate records
Reinventing the United States Postal Service
Health and social media do mix
Twilio's Lightning Developer Challenge: “Build an App for the White House”
The Sprouting Tech Startup Culture in Minneapolis
‘No SOPA’ Chrome extension warns you when you visit SOPA supporters online
Amazon S3's Server-Side Encryption
Civic tech is more than potholes and graffiti
foursquare API Hackathon: fourhealth
BART officials disable cell phone service during protests