“Survivor after survivor recalls harrowing stories of institutional betrayal, of an investigatory eye so clouded, it won’t see what’s happening to them … The survivors leave school, sometimes, one possible future abandoned … I tried to use the state’s own law—open records law—to see inside. After the polite dance of compliance, there were no more soft truths, and the UNM records custodian returned black square after black square.“
printer / public records request / censored response / ink / string
2017
