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EPA fails to warn families of lead contamination where smelters once stood

"USA Today’s investigative team found the EPA failed to tell people about or take action on hundreds of former lead smelting sites they’d known about for years. Alison Young and […]
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Justice Department fails to inform convicted defendants of flawed forensics

"An investigation by The Washington Post has found that Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work might have led to the convictions of potentially innocent people, […]
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Obama Administration silently diverting funds to IRS to enact Health Care Reform

The Hill has uncovered that the Obama administration has been quietly diverting funds to the IRS in order to implement their new health care reform law- to the tune of […]
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Hundreds of traffic tickets dismissed by municipal judge

Through a public information request The Monitor has found that a municipal judge, in Hidalgo, Texas, doesn't mind handing out favors. From January 2010 to April 2011 839 citations were […]
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Ohio businesses abusing disabled vet funds

"A Dayton Daily News examination has found that federal agencies have awarded tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded contracts to businesses operating in Ohio that claimed to be owned […]
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New York's Freedom of Information Law fails concerned parents

Elmira Star-Gazette reporter Jason Whong showed that despite having the benefit of the newspaper's archives and knowing where to look and which dates to research, New York's Freedom of Information […]
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Justice program fails to commit nation's most dangerous sex offenders

Six years ago, the federal government set out to indefinitely detain some of the nation's most dangerous sex offenders, keeping them locked up even after their prison sentences had ended. […]
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Documents further confirm surveillance of Muslim-Americans

The Huffington Post reports that the New York Police Department collected information on businesses owned by second- and third-generation Americans specifically because they were Muslims, according to newly obtained secret […]
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Rural schools and communities lose billions in funding

An expired federal program aimed to benefit former logging communities means massive budget wholes for hundreds of schools and communities across the country, an investigation by California Watch found. The […]
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Florida police officers face few penalties when they cause crashes

"An investigation by the Orlando Sentinel found that police cars in Florida are crashing at the astonishing rate of 20 a day, resulting, over a five-year period, in thousands of […]
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