With support from the Fund, Edward Donnelly spent four months investigating efforts to build some of the world’s largest data centers in the borough of Archbald, Pennsylvania – and found that local officials let developers help rewrite zoning regulations in order to build the massive centers, outside the view of local residents. Spurred by the revelations in Donnelly’s reporting, local ...
For a story that aired nationally on NPR, Julia Haney and Elizabeth Santos investigated emotional abuse in college sports. With support from the Fund, they reported that researchers have found that athletes experience emotional abuse – a toxic pattern of verbal attacks, manipulation and/or controlling actions – more than any other form of harm. Yet, while schools and sports organizations ...
With a follow-up grant from the Fund after his initial investigation last year, Luke Mullins reported for Washingtonian Magazine that conditions inside the Psychiatric Institute of Washington are even worse than previously known. Mullins spoke to a former employee at the facility who was sexually assaulted on the job by a patient, for which the federal Occupational Safety and Health ...
For more than a year, reporters at New York Focus and Hell Gate, with support from the Fund, have been reporting on a flood of sexual-abuse lawsuits filed by people held in New York state prisons. The two outlets have filed public-records requests for the personnel records of state prison staff named in the lawsuits and for records of any ...
Grantees investigate impact of contaminated water from California prison on residents of nearby town
Freelance journalist Emily Nonko teamed up with D. Razor Babb, a journalist who is incarcerated in state prison in California, to report on health concerns stemming from water quality inside the prison and in the surrounding community. With support from the Fund, the pair identified illnesses among incarcerated people, prison staff and people living in communities near the prison. ...
South Dakota Searchlight and ICT, with support from the Fund, have teamed up for a long-term project to document cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people in South Dakota. This month, the team reported on the murder of Acey Morrison, a transgender woman and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. It took four years for the man who killed her ...
With support from the Fund, Streetlight, a nonprofit news outlet, found that a Muskogee, Oklahoma, data center has received workplace safety and state environmental violations while using millions of gallons of municipal water a day. The Bitcoin mining facility run by Polaris is part of a race to bring more data centers to Oklahoma as technology companies double down on ...
Close to one-third of all city-funded apartments for formerly homeless people in San Francisco are run by the nonprofit HomeRise, but the organization has struggled to live up to its promises, endangering its residents and its mission, an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program found. Regulators have flagged the nonprofit’s failures, only to see ...
For KUNM, the public radio station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kent Patterson and Mercedes Mejia produced an hourlong documentary on environmental pollution and efforts to pursue environmental justice in two communities that straddle the U.S./Mexico border. With support from the Fund, the team filed a public-records requests to obtain a 700-page transcript of an administrative hearing for a state fine ...
A year ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, TMJ4 News and Wisconsin Watch, with support from the Fund, published the Milwaukee County district attorney’s list of law enforcement officers with integrity violations, allegations of dishonesty or bias, and past criminal charges. It was the first time the full list had been made public, and there were numerous errors and omissions in the list. Since then, local ...