How to Expose Government Waste

You've watched creators go viral for exposing government waste. Millions of views. Officials scrambling to respond. Everyone asking the same question: how did they find that?

Here's what nobody tells you. They didn't sneak into a building. They didn't have a source on the inside. They asked for the paperwork.

Every government agency in Nevada keeps records on how it spends your money, who it hires, and how it makes decisions. Under Nevada's Public Records Act, those records are not the agency's to guard. They're yours. Not metaphorically. Legally.

That's how the Piggy Booklet got made. A seven figure salary. A $12 million project that became something else entirely. Millions handed out with no debate. None of it came from a leak. It came from someone who knew how to ask.

You don't need a press badge. You don't need a journalism degree. You need to know how to file the request, read what comes back, and know it when you're looking at something worth exposing.