The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office in Florida said it has stopped keeping a list of people deemed likely to commit future crimes and repeatedly sending deputies to their homes, according to documents filed in a federal lawsuit. The agency’s practice of targeting people deemed at risk of committing crimes was the subject of a 2020 Tampa Bay Times investigation, supported by ...
Katie Thornton’s “The Divided Dial” podcast, aired by NPR’s On The Media program, has been nominated for a Peabody Award. Thornton’s podcast, with support from the Fund, examined how one side of the political spectrum came to dominate talk radio — and how Salem Media Group, the largest Christian, conservative multimedia company in the United States, is using the airwaves to ...
As Chicago began to integrate its neighborhoods in the late 1940s, Tudor Gables emerged as one of the first Black-owned cooperative apartment buildings in Chicago’s Drexel Boulevard, the boundary between white Hyde Park and Bronzeville, a Black neighborhood. Black Chicagoans had been developing cooperative businesses such as groceries and credit unions for years, but in the 1940s, aided by a ...
San Francisco Public Press, with support from the Fund, found that officials have significantly underestimated the risk of flooding on Treasure Island, which is likely getting worse. Treasure Island sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay and is the focus of a $6 billion development, expected to be occupied by more than 20,000 people. Reporter Kristi Coale found that ...
With support from the Fund, reporter John Washington of Arizona Luminaria is investigating the unusually high rate of deaths at the Pima County jail. In 2022, at least 12 people died in the jail. In the latest installment in an ongoing series, Washington looked at the quality and quantity of medical care for inmates and found it extremely deficient. He ...
Reporters Clarissa Sosin and Daryl Khan, with support from the Fund, published a five-part investigative series in Verite that examined the inner workings of the Internal Affairs Division of the Baton Rouge Police Department – the watchdog that is supposed to police the police. What they found, after scores of interviews and examination of hundreds of documents, was an agency ...
A story by students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, published in the Dallas Morning News and supported by the Fund, exposed universities’ use of a high-tech tool to spy on students, prompting the University of North Carolina to drop the system and sparking investigations at 11 universities in seven states. Reporters Arijit Sen and Dereka Bennett found that a ...
Wisconsin Watch, with a grant from the Fund for stories on threats to democracy, conducted the most comprehensive accounting of Wisconsin election fraud cases to date. The reporting found that, despite efforts to use the specter of fraud to restrict voting, there is very little actual election fraud. Reporter Matt Mencarini found that fraud prosecutions are disproportionately aimed at people ...
A story by Investigate West, supported by the Fund, exposed a cozy relationship between the federal Environmental Protection Agency and a mining company in Butte, Montana, that it was supposed to regulate. As a result of the reporting, the EPA announced several steps to increase transparency and engagement with the local community, including holding more public meetings, evaluating public health data to ...
Reporters Daniel Rivero and Joshua Ceballos, reporting for public radio station WLRN with support from the Fund, probed the publicly funded Guardianship Program in Dade County, Florida, which is supposed to raise funds through property sales to help incapacitated owners who lack other support. The reporters found that two politically connected real estate firms were often the biggest beneficiaries. Following ...