Hi, I'm Tony.

I'm a web engineer, public records researcher, and policy nerd.

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
Waiting for the facts
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
Aaron Swartz, an irreplaceable leader
Mugshot websites: profiteering via open government laws
Minneapolis Police release 2.1 million license plate records
Reinventing the United States Postal Service
Be a better person: the easiest health improvements ever
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
Aaron Swartz versus the knowledge economy
BART officials disable cell phone service during protests