From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.

I'm Al Etten.

At the end of each show, you hear me say, there's always more to the story.

And today, we find out where some of those stories lead.

Through a project we launched called Reveal's Reporting Network.

More than 800 journalists have signed on.

We provide each of them with data and reporting techniques so they can see how stories we've

covered are playing out in their communities.

Just after the Super Bowl last February, we brought you a story about concussions in high

school sports.

We focused in on Oregon, where reporter Lee Vandervue had a simple question, how many high

school athletes there get concussions?

We asked for two years of these records from all the public high schools in Oregon.

That's 235 schools.

And we looked at which sports had a lot of concussions at which schools, whether they had happened

in big districts or small ones, we also just wanted to see who was following the law.

Don't states enforce it?

Actually, no.

There's no enforcement mechanism.

So at minimum, we thought this could be a really good audit.

Do people do this if nobody checks?

At the end, it was really hard to be confident and how well the laws were being followed.

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