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California Court Management Investigated
The KGTV 10News I-Team began inspecting the inner workings of California's court management system more than two years ago. Our entry includes six stories, highlighting our continued investigation of California's Administrative Office of the Courts, the court's governing body. We revealed how much California court leaders were willing to spend on routine court maintenance and alerted state leaders of our findings.
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"Court ignores NY rules on filing documents"
Public access to court documents has been hampered in some areas of New York state. Instead of submitting documents to be formally filed, lawyers passed them "directly to judges' chambers." Consequently, the files never made it to the proper place to be accessible to the public.
Tags: Monroe County; Office of Court Administration; Monroe County Clerk; Monroe Country Courts
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DUI Series
This series is a comprehensive look at drunken driving in Colorado. It includes specific cases, recommendation of dealing with the problem, and current policies.
Tags: drunk driving; MADD; DUI; DWI; intoxication; accidents; vehicular homicide; Colorado Court Administrator's Office; Division of Behavioral Health;
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Jury Not Of Their Peers
The reporters investigated the lack of Black participants in the judicial process, from being disproportionately under-represented on juries to a startling lack of Black prosecutors, defenders and judges.
Tags: Department of Justice; DOJ; courts; jury service; lawyers; judges; racial representation; legal system; disproportionate representation; Blacks; African-American communities; Administrative Office of the Courts; racism
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Queens County judgeships: No Republicans need apply
This series looked at the election process for state and city judges in Queens. After two months of investigation, the reporters found that the Queens County Democratic Organization and its chairman, are in firm control of who makes it to the bench in the borough's state and city courts. The Democrats have an unbroken record of winning judicial elections, going back to at least 1990. The investigation also found the chairman of the Queens County Democratic Organization, also a lawyer, can gain lucrative appointments and contracts from their friends on the bench.
Tags: Queens County Democratic Organization; judicial elections; election process; state judges; city judges; bribery; Brooklyn judiciary; Brooklyn Democratic party; election records; campaign finance; Queens County Bar Association; Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Queens County; Queens State Supreme Court; Office of Court Administration; New York City Civil Court; Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections; judgeship; Queens Treatment Court; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Queens County Republican Party; Commission on Judicial Conduct
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Partners With Clout
Two contractors with an extensive history of bad debts and questionable business practices won more than $37 million in state contracts and subsidies after becoming major contributors and fund-raisers for N.Y. Gov. George Pataki and other politicians. Frank and Ken Stubbolo had fund-raisers for N.Y. Gov. George Pataki and other politicians. Frank and Ken Stubbolo had a lengthy record of bankruptcies, financial judgements and tax defaults - much of it detailed in public records...Despite their clouded background, however, the Stubbolo brothers wound up with state contracts to build dormitories, an assisted-living facility and a community center. The state's failure to examine the contractors' background and qualifications quickly became apparent with the dormitory job had to be halted because of design flaws and delays.
Tags: contractors; campaign finance; PAC; CAR; OCA; Office of Court Administration
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A Killer In Our Food
The Detroit Free Press, in an eight-month long investigation, looks into a deadly disease outbreak that started from negligent behavior at a Michigan meat-packing plant. The outbreak of listeria killed at least 21 people and caused a multi-million dollar recall. The reporters used FOIA requests, interviewed sources across the country, and reviewed more than 10,000 pages of documents. The Free Press used a federal database of citations at U.S. meat plants, court and company records, e-mail traffic between federal and state health officers and state and county health records to complete this investigation. The investigation found that this meat-packing plant was similar to many plants across the nation.
Tags: CAR food; safety; meat; Bil Mar Foods; health; disease; Sara Lee recall processed meat USDA Department of Agriculture FSIS Food Safety and Inspection Service FDA Food and Drug Administration
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Hell on Wheels
A year-long look at the daily mayhem of Philadelphia streets and highways. The stories contain interviews and extensive electronic data on automobile accidents, traffic tickets and drunken driving arrests. The stories identified a significant increase in traffic deaths over the past decade and documented many reasons for it. The stories point to police cutbacks and lax enforcement has led to driver irresponsibility.
Tags: CAR; highways; Philadelphia Police Department; automobile accidents; Philadelphia Traffic Court; drivers