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• Which body it involves. The city, HEDCO, a city board, Henderson ISD, Rusk County or another agency.
• When it happened. A meeting date, a contract date or a time frame, with the year.
• Where the record is. An agenda item, a budget page, a link or a document. Attach it if you have it.
• How you know. Whether you saw it yourself or heard it from someone else.

• Your identity stays private. We do not publish or share who sent a tip unless you ask us to.
• We check before we publish. A tip is a starting point. We look for the public record behind it, and we do not publish anything based on a single unconfirmed source.
• We may not reply to every tip. We read all of them, but some take time to check and some do not lead to a story.
• Records, not rumors. We cover how public money and public rules are handled. We do not publish personal attacks or private matters.

• Use a personal device and account. If you work for a public body, do not send tips from a work computer, work phone or work email.
• Consider a separate email address. A free account that does not use your name keeps your identity out of the message.
• Many records are already public. If the information should be public, a records request may get it without anyone having to send it to us. See our Investigations page for how we use records requests.

To point out a mistake in a story, use the same email and put “Correction” in the subject. To recognize someone who makes Henderson better, nominate them for Henderson Hero of the Month.