Rory Lapointe-Smith Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles County, California, United States

I am the clearance supervisor for the Oxygen/NBC crime documentary series--'Real Murders of Atlanta' Season 3 with a 20 episode order. In this position I handle clearances, releases for both interviews and personal materials as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also work on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local and state level while over seeing a small team of clearance/story. I d0 outreach with… Show more I am the clearance supervisor for the Oxygen/NBC crime documentary series--'Real Murders of Atlanta' Season 3 with a 20 episode order. In this position I handle clearances, releases for both interviews and personal materials as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also work on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local and state level while over seeing a small team of clearance/story. I d0 outreach with victims' families, prosecutors as well dealt with network requirements for the broadcast episodes, digital content and social media requests. I also do both news and legal research on the cases for our series as part of a fact checking team as well as work within the current fair use legal limits for this type of series. Show less

Los Angeles County, California, United States

I was the clearance supervisor for two different Oxygen/NBC crime documentary series--'Real Murders of the OC' Season 3 and 'Real Murders of Los Angeles' Season 1. In this position I handled clearances, releases for both talent and locations as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also worked on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local and state level while over seeing a small team of clearance/story… Show more I was the clearance supervisor for two different Oxygen/NBC crime documentary series--'Real Murders of the OC' Season 3 and 'Real Murders of Los Angeles' Season 1. In this position I handled clearances, releases for both talent and locations as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also worked on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local and state level while over seeing a small team of clearance/story. I did outreach with victims' families, prosecutors as well dealt with network requirements for the broadcast episodes, digital content and social media requests. Show less

Los Angeles County, California, United States

I was the clearance manager for season 5 of Oxygen/NBC crime documentary series--'Homicide for the Holidays'. In this position I handled clearances, releases for both interviewees and locations as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also worked on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local and state level as well as outreach with victims' families, prosecutors as well dealt with network requirements for… Show more I was the clearance manager for season 5 of Oxygen/NBC crime documentary series--'Homicide for the Holidays'. In this position I handled clearances, releases for both interviewees and locations as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also worked on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local and state level as well as outreach with victims' families, prosecutors as well dealt with network requirements for the broadcast episodes, digital content and social media requests. Show less

Los Angeles County, California, United States

I was the clearance manager for season 3 of Oxygen/NBC crime documentary series--'Exhumed'. In this position I handled clearances, releases for both interviewees and locations as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also worked on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local and state level as well as outreach with victims' families, prosecutors as well dealt with network requirements for the broadcast… Show more I was the clearance manager for season 3 of Oxygen/NBC crime documentary series--'Exhumed'. In this position I handled clearances, releases for both interviewees and locations as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also worked on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local and state level as well as outreach with victims' families, prosecutors as well dealt with network requirements for the broadcast episodes, digital content and social media requests. Show less

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

I was the clearance manager for season 1 of the Vice crime documentary series--'Betraying the Badge'. In this position I handled clearances, releases for both interviewees and locations as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also worked on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local, state and federal level as well as outreach with victims' families, prosecutors as well dealt with network requirements… Show more I was the clearance manager for season 1 of the Vice crime documentary series--'Betraying the Badge'. In this position I handled clearances, releases for both interviewees and locations as well as licensing from various news/archives and individuals involved with our series. I also worked on FOIAs and Open Records requests with various law enforcement agencies on the local, state and federal level as well as outreach with victims' families, prosecutors as well dealt with network requirements for the broadcast episodes, digital content and social media requests. Show less

Burbank, Ca

Was involved with researching and sourcing news media from various criminal cases for this documentary crime series. Was also involved with clearing talent, locations and personal mementos of the law enforcement and families feature. This position also involved legal searches and depended on the Lexis and Nexis search programs.

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