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Through interviews with families and advocates and a review of thousands of pages of public records, the San Antonio Express-News reports that some of the city’s most frail and vulnerable residents are suffering at the hands of their caregivers in Texas nursing homes. Yet state officials allow troubled nursing homes to continue operating with little…
Read MoreJoin Kristen Lombardi and David Donald of The Center for Public Integrity in a one-hour webinar that will help you understand how to investigate the ways colleges and universities handle allegations of sexual assault. This session is free but space is limited. To register please send an email to campus@ire.org. After 12 months of reporting,…
Read More“Sobriety checkpoints in California are increasingly turning into profitable operations for local police departments that are far more likely to seize cars from unlicensed motorists than catch drunken drivers,” according to a report by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and California Watch. It is estimated that in 2009 such checkpoints generated $40 million…
Read MoreA package of stories by The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.) reveals that a Louisville Metro police detective has been accusing people of crimes they did not commit. Many of the accused have been juveniles. “Detective Crystal Marlowe has pursued charges against some defendants for crimes they could not have committed because they were already in jail.…
Read MoreDespite a 2007 law requiring the Marine Corps to notify former residents of Camp Lejeune, N.C. that they may have been exposed to contaminated water between 1957 and 1987, many have never been notified while others are just now finding out, according to a report by Barbara Barrett of McClatchy Newspapers. “The Marines have registered…
Read MoreRegister today to take advantage of the early bird rate of $190. After Monday, March 1, this rate will increase to $220 on-site. Registration information can be found at http://data.nicar.org/CAR2010/reg. Cutting-edge panels and practical hands-on software training will highlight IRE’s 2010 Computer Assisted Reporting conference March 11-14 in Phoenix, Ariz. We’ll offer something for everyone…
Read MoreTracy Weber and Charles Ornstein of ProPublica reported on big gaps in a federal database that is supposed to alert hospitals to disciplinary actions against health care providers across the country. Over two decades ago, Congress “ordered up a national database allowing hospitals to check for disciplinary actions taken anywhere in the country against nurses,…
Read MoreBy G.W. Schulz Center for Investigative Reporting Nearly $70,000 worth of surveillance gear left unused in its original packaging by a county north of San Francisco. A $2,300 plasma TV for university cops. More than $1.3 million spent without maintaining proper documentation to show where it went. Millions more in bomb-disposal robots and new communications…
Read MoreA report by Kate Linebaugh, Dionne Searcey and Norihiko Shirouzu of The Wall Street Journal reveals that a “secretive corporate culture” at Toyota kept the company from reporting and addressing safety issues in a timely manner with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “Its silence with U.S. regulators, and other newly uncovered details from the…
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