Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
21 October 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A growing number of prosecutors compile lists of police officers deemed untrustworthy witnesses, information they disclose to defense lawyers to prevent unjust criminal convictions. Called "Brady lists" or "do not cal...
19 October 2021
Rochester, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
During the 2020 social justice protests, Rochester city school leaders quickly acted to remove police officers from the schools. A long-time goal of school-discipline reformers, ending the use of school resource offic...
10 October 2021
Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Washington state prison officials say they have tried for years to reduce their use of solitary confinement. They made some progress toward that goal until the pandemic. Despite that complication, hundreds still live ...
9 October 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Starting in 1968, Congress has passed a series of laws, as have some states, stripping gun possession rights from people convicted of felonies or of domestic violence, or who are the subjects of restraining orders. Bu...
5 October 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have enacted red-flag laws, most of them since the 2018 Parkland, Fla., school shooting. The laws, also called extreme risk protection order laws, allow law enforcement off...
29 September 2021
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Secure Neighborhoods program lets select police officers buy houses at subsidized prices if they move into a mostly Black, historically disinvested neighborhood. The aim of the program is to make police officers p...
28 September 2021
Missouri, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
A new Missouri law, the Second Amendment Preservation Act, restricts the ability of local law enforcement officials to collaborate with federal officials in enforcing gun laws and investigating gun crimes. The law, wh...
22 September 2021
Moab, Utah, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The case of Gabby Petito illustrates how decades-old laws meant to make police take domestic violence more seriously can backfire on the people who most need protection. Mandatory-arrest laws require police responding...
22 September 2021
United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
Prescribed burning or controlled burning is an ancestral indigenous practice in which specific sections of a forest are burned. Controlled burning also happens naturally like when lightning strikes a forest. Controlle...
16 September 2021
Wisconsin, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Wisconsin is a leader in the movement to treat fathers as equal caregivers and to prioritize shared custody in divorces. But this fathers' rights reform, combined with outmoded ideas about women who allege domestic vi...
15 September 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
After years of inaction on police-reform measures, Austin city leaders raced to restructure and cut resources from the city's police department after the 2020 nationwide social-justice protests followed close on the h...
14 September 2021
Bihar, India
Text
800-1500 Words
The Bihar, India, state government banned drinking and selling of alcohol in 2016 after women in the mostly rural state mounted protests blaming men's alcohol abuse for rampant violence against women. Hundreds of thou...
13 September 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Washington state legislators imposed new restrictions on the use of force by police, including strict limits on physically restraining someone who is not suspected of committing a crime. At a time when non-police resp...
7 September 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Oakland Ceasefire's "delicate architecture" balancing law enforcement and community-based responses to gun violence, which seemed to have helped lower the city's gun violence by half since 2012, came crashing down dur...
2 September 2021
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
A 2002 agreement with the U.S. Justice Department made Cincinnati a model of police reform. After a series of controversial shootings of residents, police committed to a less harsh, more publicly accountable approach ...
1 September 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
The 2020 protests over abusive policing nationwide led to Austin city leaders' decision to be the first major city to make major cuts in their police budget. But these early and rapid "defund-the-police" measures, cut...
23 August 2021
Whitehall, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Congress created the U visa program in 2000 to encourage undocumented immigrants to report crimes to the police and cooperate with investigations and prosecutions. The visa legalizes an immigrant's status, if certifie...
19 August 2021
Houston, Texas, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
First responders usually have wide discretion over whether to force their way into a private home to respond to an emergency. One family's tragic carbon monoxide poisoning during Texas' severe winter weather in 2021 i...
15 August 2021
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
A third of surveyed college students experience food insecurity, the rate is even higher at Western Washington University. To address the issue that university has unfolded a number of responses; food pantries, meal d...
11 August 2021
Alaska, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Alaska put itself at the cutting edge of rape investigations in 2007 by passing a law requiring the collection of DNA samples from people arrested for a variety of crimes. The system is meant to aid in solving rapes, ...
Reveal
Eda Uzunlar
7 August 2021
Wyoming, United States
Illustrations
Under 800 Words
Neighboring states of Wyoming and South Dakota take starkly different approaches toward youth who get in trouble. Side-by-side comic panels follow two real cases through each system. A South Dakota teen gets help that...
5 August 2021
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Disaster preparedness in the form of close inter-agency coordination and communication helped Cuyahoga County, Ohio, protect its unhoused population from COVID-19 to a greater extent than Lane County, Oregon. Although...
3 August 2021
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A Florida constitutional amendment enacted in 2018 called Marsy's Law protects crime victims' rights, including the right to privacy when public-records laws would otherwise reveal victims' identity. But the Jacksonvi...
2 August 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Many cities have experienced tragic deaths in rental apartments, but Chicago's poor record in this realm is compounded by officials' refusal to concede systemic problems. So, to follow up on an earlier report about th...
2 August 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Federal consent decrees install court-appointed monitors to oversee reforms agreed to by a police department and the U.S. Justice Department after federal officials have found a department violates people's civil righ...
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