Author: Patti Epler, Editor of Honolulu Civil Beat and Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost Hawai’i

A couple years ago, University of Hawai‘i journalism professor Bev Keever had her students undertake a very basic reporting exercise: request misconduct reports filed with the Legislature by Hawai‘i’s four county police agencies. It turned out to be anything but simple. But Keever, a former Vietnam War correspondent, finally obtained what turned out to be…