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Code of Silence: Sexual Misconduct by Federal Judges, the Secret System that Protects Them and the Women who Blew the Whistle

The author’s original investigations of this case for the Houston Chronicle exposed for the first time the allegations of repeated sexual assault that a federal court employee had made in […]
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Board lessens punishment in Title IX inquiry

For two years, players on the junior high boys basketball team allegedly sexually assaulted teammates multiple times on multiple occasions. The school board held secret expulsion hearings and attempted to […]
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Little Victims Everywhere

Child sexual abuse is a major problem in Indian Country, yet federal government data suggests hundreds of cases may be falling through the cracks. A Howard Center for Investigative Journalism […]
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Windsor Mayor Investigation

For years, women in Wine Country traded warnings about Dominic Foppoli, an ambitious politician and winery owner whose family had been in the wine industry for generations. They referenced Foppoli during […]
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Uncovered

With corruption flourishing in South Carolina as newspapers close and shrink, The Post and Courier teamed up with 17 other news outlets across the state to investigate misconduct and expose […]
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Behind The Blue Wall: Officers Describe A ‘Toxic’ Culture Within Metro Police

Former employees of the Metro Nashville Police Department say that, for years, the disciplinary process has been used to protect a small group of high-ranking officers against complaints of sexual […]
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Alumni allege history of inappropriate conduct with female students by Princeton professor Joshua Katz

Our investigation revealed that a prominent professor at Princeton, known to be a gatekeeper to his field and a mentor to young students, crossed ethical and professional boundaries with multiple […]
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We’re doing everything that we can: A Title IX Investigation continued

In our investigation, we wanted to fully understand the impact of Title IX sanctions at UNL and if UNL failed to implement sanctions properly. Several students had complained about Title […]
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She should’ve known better

A former county contractor accused a county commissioner in Indiana of sexual harassment as she ran for mayor. We published his accusations. She dropped out of the mayoral race and […]
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Famed figure skating coach Richard Callaghan faces another allegation of abuse

Adam Schmidt, a former competitive figure skater, has alleged that he was sexually abused by once-celebrated figure skating coach Richard Callaghan in the years after U.S. Figure Skating, the sport’s national […]
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Is U.S. Center for SafeSport making sports safer?

A two-part investigation by the Orange County Register/Southern California News Group focused on the Jennyfer Roberts/Colin Burns case as a way of revealing shortcomings in how the U.S. Center for […]
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Shattered Trust: Sexual Offences in Amateur Sports

The series sought to explore the prevalence of sexual abuse by coaches in amateur sports across Canada. We focused on the last 20 years because it had been two decades […]
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Alabama, Human Trafficking, and the Web

641,000... That's the total number of on-line sex trafficking ads in Alabama, just in 2017, as counted by the University of Alabama's College of Social Work. Our reporting is that […]
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Innocence Lost

Through scores of interviews and review of court documents, we constructed the most complete history yet published of the child-abuse crisis that engulfed the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis in […]
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Guarded Secrets

“Guarded Secrets” was a 6,000-word cover story investigating Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, Vermont’s only prison for women. The story brought to light allegations of sexual misconduct against current and former […]
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The Coroner Who Conned a County

Coroner Barry L. Busby was the most popular elected official in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, winning his eighth full term in November 2018 with the highest vote total on the local […]
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