Impact

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 ...

HomeRise, one of San Francisco’s largest providers of permanent supportive housing, turned a blind eye for years as tenants and staff filed repeated complaints alleging sexual misconduct by a case manager entrusted with residents’ care, an investigation by Matthew Mitchell found. With support from the Fund, Mitchell partnered with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Susie Neilson to examine how the nonprofit ...

PennLive, with support from the Fund, dug into a county grant program and found serious irregularities that led the head of the program to resign and caused the county to stop making grants and reform the program. PennLive’s continued reporting revealed that a former Pennsylvania official’s private business received a $40,000 grant to make food deliveries to low-income people — ...

A popular grant program in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is funded by gambling revenue from a local casino. With support from the Fund, reporters at Penn Live spent 19 months analyzing thousands of records, interviewing dozens of officials and grantees and building databases to understand who was requesting the money and where it was going. They found that, while the law ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2018, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was quick to write off the death of Rankin County jail inmate William Wade Aycock IV as an accident. But an investigation by Mississippi Today and The New York Times unearthed new evidence in the case that suggests Aycock was killed. With support from the Fund, the reporting found that state investigators ignored ...

Calling it “a hard-hitting exposé on one of the most disturbing and destructive issues of our times, poignantly told through the stories of families directly affected,” the American Psychoanalytic Association this month honored “After the Darien” with a Special Recognition Award. The investigation by Clavel Rangel and Katie Scarlett Brandt, with support from the Fund, examined how migrant children’s mental ...