After Ahmaud Arbery was murdered while jogging in a majority-white neighborhood in Glynn County, Georgia, initial police reports cast him as a burglar and “suspicious person,” not a victim of crime. Many Black people who live in Brunswick, the county seat surrounded by a white majority, told The Current that they believed bias toward people of color by local police ...
Based on a trove of confidential internal documents, reporter Will Evans from Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, in collaboration with WIRED, exposed how Amazon has failed to protect its empire of data, harming customers and small businesses. Amazon grew so quickly, with so few internal controls, that the company couldn’t even keep track of the sensitive data it ...
Grantees at Wisconsin Watch are investigating a child abuse pediatrician whose declarations of abuse have been 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, ...
Grantee Robert Lewis of CalMatters examines how California’s gun laws have fallen short of their promise after years of bipartisan support in the state. Lewis obtained hundreds of court filings and public records and interviewed dozens of sources, and his three-part series shows that California is struggling to recover illegally owned firearms. At the start of this year, 24,000 individuals ...
Grantees at Civil Beat in Hawaii obtained thousands of pages of records and emails showing that officials at the federal panel overseeing fishing in the Pacific Ocean have worked to protect commercial fishing interests instead of protecting the environment. A seven-part special project by deputy editor Nathan Eagle looks at the political activism of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management ...
Oil and gas companies claim that taking action on climate change puts Louisiana’s economy and workers at risk. But without action, coastal Louisiana residents are at greater risk of losing their homes to rising sea levels and more intense hurricanes. The fossil fuel industry’s contribution to the state economy has been in decline, as has the number of residents employed ...
In an ongoing investigative series based on arbitration files from the past 25 years – records that have only recently become public due to a change in state law – grantee Nick Grube of Hawaii Civil Beat analyzes and reports on the role the collective bargaining process and grievance procedures play in efforts to improve police practices in Hawaii. Civil ...
A new multi-part podcast by grantee Sara Ganim for Meadowlark Media and Advance Local explores the story of Shawn Sinisi, a victim of Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse, and takes listeners into the world of addiction rehabilitation, where trauma-informed therapy is scarce, resources shame addicts for their medical issues and there is little regulation for the institutions dolling out healthcare. In the ...
In an investigation for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, grantee Amy Silverman revealed that despite a class-action lawsuit that led to decades of mental health care reform, Arizonans with chronic mental illness are not getting the help they need, thanks in part to a settlement agreement that removed most accountability and transparency measures from the system and softened the ...
Grantees at the Lens in New Orleans collected thousands of documents to explore how fast and how much the New Orleans Police Department has expanded its surveillance – and how little the community knew about it. With support from the Fund, the team spent a year investigating and creating a multipage, interactive data story looking at the tools used, the ...