As part of ongoing reporting about the justice system in rural areas, and with support from the Fund, Oklahoma Watch spent a year investigating a car crash involving a drug task force officer and a family of Guatemalan immigrants. Oklahoma Watch sued to obtain evidence that the officer sped through a stop sign without braking before the cars collided. No ...
The City Reporter, with support from the Fund, found that 93% of street arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the New York area targeted Latino people. ICE has not released any data on who they have arrested since October 15, 2025, so the City Reporter compiled its own database, using habeas corpus petitions filed on behalf of immigrants ...
When two farmers in a small town in Ohio were concerned about construction of a huge new corporate plant in their community, they gathered enough signatures to put the zoning changes up for a public vote. But, twice, state officials blocked the project from going on the ballot. Taylor Barnes for Inkstick Media, with support from the Fund, revealed that ...
PBS Frontline and Retro Report investigated how so-called baby brokers have targeted pregnant women and families looking to adopt. They found that in parts of the U.S., the adoption industry is loosely regulated, where middlemen operate in a practice that critics have described as “adoption tourism.” With support from the Fund, Kimberlee Bassford contributed reporting on the adoption of babies ...
Medetomidine, a powerful tranquilizer that started to spread as an adulterant in the illicit opioid supply two years ago, causes excruciating, complicated withdrawal symptoms, often within hours of someone’s last dose. With support from the Fund, Hannah Harris Green reported for STAT that many institutions – particularly jails and prisons – are ill-prepared to treat the withdrawal effects of this new drug. ...
With support from the Fund, Amy Martyn dug into a murder case in San Francisco that’s part of a pattern of more than 100 cases in the city where people spend years in jail awaiting trial on serious charges. Brothers Kenyon and Kishawn Norbert spent more than seven years in jail awaiting trial. Martyn reported that officials did not gather ...
At least 67 schoolteachers in California have kept their teaching licenses after school districts determined that they engaged in sexual misconduct with students over the last several years, according to reporting by Holly McDede and Mollie Simon for KQED and ProPublica, with support from the Fund. At least 14 of those teachers were hired by other schools. Weeks after the ...
In a continued series of reports, Public Domain uncovered conflicts of interest at the U.S. Interior Department, with a focus on Karen Budd-Falen, a longtime ranching advocate who is now a top deputy to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. With support from the Fund, reporting by Jimmy Tobias and Chris D’Angelo exposed numerous scandals involving Budd-Falen, including a multi-million-dollar water rights ...
Coroners across Pennsylvania block public access to autopsy reports, hindering research about jail deaths, according to an investigation by Jonah Walters for The Conversation US with support from the Fund. Walters partnered with Terence Keel, a professor, to request autopsy reports in jail death cases from 41 Pennsylvania coroners. Only three complied with state law and provided records. The pair ...
As part of a larger series about the future of hemp in North Carolina, The Assembly investigated hemp products sold in the state. With support from the Fund, a team of reporters purchased 21 intoxicating hemp products from retailers across the state and subjected them to independent testing. They found that 13 had unsafe levels of bacteria and other substances, ...