Perrusquia asked to inspect the records on-site instead. The Memphis Police Department only be allowed two appointments per week and three hours for each appointment. Memphis Councilman JB Smiley Jr. introduced a transparency resolution in June 2020 after reading the report by the Institute for Public Service Reporting. In February 2021, The Reporters Committee’s Local Legal represented Perrusquia in a lawsuit against The city of Memphis after it had denied records requests seeking body camera footage from three separate incidents of alleged use of excessive force by city police officer Colin Berryhill. A Memphis Police Department internal investigation found that Berryhill violated the department's policies against excessive or unnecessary use of force three times between May 2018 and April 2019. The City responded to the lawsuit by creating a new written policy that all administrative investigations in which a Memphis police officer is found to have used excessive force would be referred to the Shelby County District Attorney. Two days after the lawsuit the police department referred the case to District Attorney Amy Weirich, who declined to file charges. The case was dismissed in March, after Perrusquia received copies of all requested bodycam footage. In April 2022, The Reporters Committee helped Perrusquia file another lawsuit over three separate public requests with the city of Memphis for the records related to three current or former Memphis Police Department officers who had been subject to disciplinary proceedings.The reason given for the denial was that the records were exempt from disclosure under Tennessee’s public records law. In 2021 WKNO-FM and the Institute for Public Service Reporting won second place in the Public Service in Radio Journalism category of the 71st Annual Green Eyeshade Awards for "The Waiting Decade: Rape Victims Still Seek Justice." In response the Institute's historical investigation into Clifford Davis' ties to the Ku Klux Klan, Odell Horton, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen is sent a bill in Congress to remove his name from the federal building in downtown, Memphis, replacing it with the name of Odell Horton, the first Black federal judge appointed in West Tennessee since Reconstruction. Funding While The University of Memphis has provided The Institute for Public Service Reporting with significant financial support, it also has received funding from the Report For America, Knight Foundation, Meta Journalism Project, the Walton Family Foundation, in addition to individual donations. The Institute for Public Service Reporting is a member of and