As Somerville Voices' Barry Rafkind uncovered through a MuckRock request, the Somerville Police Department referred nine individuals to federal immigration officials between January 2009 and April 2010 for a range of alleged offenses ranging from prostitution to narcotics trafficking to possession of stolen property.

After a request by Post Somerville and made possible through funding by you, our readers, MuckRock has published the 2009 Somerville Campaign Finance Reports online, fully searchable and sharable. The 2009 Campaign Finance Reports, made up of hundreds of pages of mandatory filings by aldermen and mayoral candidates, are being analyzed by Post Somerville.

We thought you should know that we received the following e-mail from the Department of Transitional Assistance on Monday.

Ever wonder how food stamp money is actually being spent? Curious as to how hard the “great recession” has hit your community? In this exclusive MuckRock data set, we present over four years of government reimbursement data, including exact reimbursement amounts and exact addresses of where the money is being spent.

MuckRock recently filed requests for data about the dogs in Somerville and in Cambridge, and the Animal Control offices in both cities were helpful. If you want to know the most popular place to raise your pooch, or sneak a peak and see if your dog’s name is one of the top 10 most popular (should we say pupular?), then just read on!