Wisconsin Watch investigated a child abuse pediatrician whose declarations of abuse were rejected at least a dozen times by police, prosecutors, jurors, child protective services officials and other doctors. Dr. Barbara Knox was placed on leave from the University of Wisconsin in 2019 for allegedly bullying her colleagues. Now she is medical director of Alaska CARES, a statewide forensic child ...
City Limits published the first story in a planned series examining the role of “Community Benefits Agreements” in the city’s land use and development planning. Once a popular part of high-profile real estate deals, CBAs were seen as a way for community members to ensure that developers building neighborhood-changing projects – sports stadiums, university campus expansions, a shopping mall – ...
Following the George Floyd protests, Dallas Morning News reporters documented how a Dallas police sergeant blasted a Latina demonstrator in the breast at close range with pepper balls then arrested her and the photographer who captured the violence. Reporters Cassandra Jaramillo, Madi Alexander and Miles Moffeit soon heard whispers that this wasn’t the first time Sgt. Roger Rudloff had roughed ...
The Clean Slate movement, which seeks to end public access to individual criminal records, is gathering momentum across the United States. It is widely lauded as a means to allow people who have reformed or were wrongly arrested to cleanse the public record. By doing so, these people improve their chances for a job, an education, a place to live ...
Voice of San Diego examined each COVID-related death in San Diego County during the first year of the pandemic, uncovering new insights about each person’s education, occupation and race – information never before released by the county. The Voice, with a grant from the Fund, had to sue to get access to the records. A team of journalists then spent ...
Eric S. Peterson explored the criminal justice system’s sometimes double standard in dealing with armed militias at protests in Utah. In a series for the Utah Investigative Journalism Project, which Peterson leads, in partnership with the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune, Peterson found the Salt Lake District Attorney had dropped charges against a militia member who pepper-sprayed a ...
Northern Nevada is one of the most productive and sought-after gold mining regions on the planet. In 2019, two companies merged their Nevada mines into a joint venture, Nevada Gold Mines, now one of the largest gold miners in the world. The company’s size and the absence of competition left the local community, the workforce, contractors, and Indigenous nations on ...
In North Carolina, several counties are betting their futures on bigger jails, guided by consultants who stand to profit. The decisions are often based on dubious work by consultants who may then be hired to design the jails they recommend. And the counties often fail to weigh the long-term costs of putting their money into bigger jails instead dealing with ...
The bankruptcy of prominent Easterday Ranches in Washington State, where owner Cody Easterday had lost more than $200 million in cattle futures, offered a rare opportunity to examine the opaque world of beef pricing, and in particular, Tyson Foods, one of four meat packing corporations controlling 73 percent of the protein market in the United States. Easterday was being prosecuted ...
SJV Water Editor and CEO Lois Henry had heard from farmers in Kings County in California’s San Joaquin Valley that water was being moved in large amounts from the heavily farmed region, possibly for sales outside the county. What she found was that water is, in fact, leaving the county, mostly under legal transfers by the region’s two largest farming ...