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 ...
Federal government launches crackdown on schoolteacher sexual misconduct, citing grantee’s reporting
The U.S. Department of Education issued a nationwide directive to states and school districts to scrutinize their laws and regulations to prevent teachers who have engaged in sexual misconduct with students from obtaining new positions elsewhere. The directive cited an investigation by ProPublica and KQED, with support from the Fund, which found that California has not revoked credentials of at ...
A grand jury in Hawaii indicted the state’s Lieutenant Governor and four other key officials and power brokers for bribery, conspiracy and other charges last Friday, after Honolulu Civil Beat, with support from the Fund, uncovered evidence that the FBI recorded a lawmaker being given $35,000 several years ago. Civil Beat subsequently uncovered that a bribe may have been linked ...
San Francisco’s city government announced last week that it will not renew $39 million in contracts to HomeRise, one of the city’s biggest providers of housing to formerly homeless people. Earlier, the CEO of HomeRise resigned after reporting by the San Francisco Chronicle and the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program, with support from the Fund, exposed deadly neglect in its ...