Please join us next Friday, November 21, at noon Eastern for a free webinar on how to obtain and use prison litigation records in investigative reporting. The webinar will include information on how to get funding and legal help for these stories.
Click here to register for this free webinar.
Freelance journalist Beth Shelburne will share how she spent a year obtaining financial records, court documents and other records for a groundbreaking series on the Alabama Dept. of Corrections’ handling of excessive-force lawsuits. Shelburne’s Alabama Reflector series, supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism, found that the state paid tens of millions of dollars to settle nearly 100 excessive-force lawsuits since 2020. She’ll discuss her reporting and share tips with other journalists in a conversation with award-winning journalist Ellen Weiss, vice president of the Fund’s board.
Everyone who registers for the Nov. 21 webinar will receive a tip sheet from Shelburne and a recording of the session.