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New Connecticut Law Aims to Support Victims of Sexual Assault – and Prevent Them From Being Treated Like Suspects
A landmark bill aimed at standardizing and improving the way police treat victims in the aftermath of a sexual assault has become law in Connecticut. The new law establishes a council that will create a model policy for police responding to sexual assault, and it received unanimous, bipartisan support. The law also requires that officers refer victims to a victim advocate, distribute information about services available, and help the victim and any children present obtain medical care. Every law enforcement agency in the state will have to meet or exceed the model policy by September 2025, and the council will collect data about police and the overall criminal justice response to sexual assault statewide.
40 Acres
It’s often thought of as a promise that was never kept. But “40 acres and a mule” was more than that. In “40 Acres and a Lie, ” a three-part podcast series from Reveal and the Center for Public Integrity, we tell the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles, only to take the land back. We explore a reparation that wasn’t – and the wealth gap that remains.
Shot by a Civilian Wielding a Police Gun
Candace Leslie was leaving church when she got the call she will never forget. “All I heard was his girlfriend yelling in the phone, and she was like, ‘Cameron! Cameron! … He won’t get up. He won’t get up!’ ”. Someone shot Leslie’s son four...
How Famine and Starvation Could Affect Gazans for Generations to Come
Famine is already happening in parts of Gaza, a top U.S. humanitarian official publicly acknowledged last week for the first time. After six months of Israeli war and blockades, an estimated 2.2 million people are facing acute or catastrophic food shortages. One in three children in northern Gaza are malnourished, and deaths due to hunger are expected to accelerate quickly, U.S. officials have warned.
Alabama Lawmakers Want Prison for False Reporting Charges. That Could Have Serious Consequences.
Last year, 25-year-old Carlee Russell called 911 in Hoover, Alabama, reporting that there was a child on the interstate. Then Russell vanished, and no child was found. A massive search effort followed, along with a national media frenzy. Two days later, she returned home, seemingly unharmed but claiming that she had escaped a kidnapping.
Ex-Mormon Bishop Arrested on Charges of Sexually Abusing His Daughter
In 1999, John Goodrich, an Idaho dentist who was also a bishop with the Mormon church, accompanied his teenage daughter Chelsea on a school field trip to the East Coast. During a stay in Williamsburg, Virginia, he allegedly abused her sexually, as she later claimed he had done since she was at least 9.
How Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers in Florida Get Taxpayer Funds With Almost No Oversight
This article was published in partnership with the Miami Herald. To understand the problems with Florida’s oversight of anti-abortion pregnancy centers, you don’t have to look much further than Mary’s Pregnancy Resource Center, north of Miami. The crisis pregnancy center in Broward County steered women away from...
Federal Agents Investigating Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor in Its Supply Chain
The Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. Dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, they set up at a hotel overlooking the Dominican Republic’s southern coast. But the group, which included law enforcement officers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, wasn’t traveling to enjoy the area’s world-class golf courses and palm-studded white sand beaches.
Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a ‘Gold Mine’
This story was produced by Mother Jones. Get their investigations emailed to you directly here. The first time Katrina Edwards was locked in a psychiatric hospital for children, she was sure a foster parent would pick her up the next day. It was a spring night in 2012 when Edwards,...
State Pension Fund is Helping a Middle Eastern Firm Export Arizona’s Precious Groundwater
As rural Arizonans face the prospect of wells running dry, foreign firms are sucking up vast amounts of the state’s groundwater to grow hay for Saudi Arabia and other wealthy nations. Now it turns out that a key investor in this water transfer scheme is Arizona’s own employee retirement fund.
As Climate Clock Ticks, US Government Has Been Using Burning Trash to Look Green
Every day, thousands of tons of trash – rotten food, takeout containers, diapers, old shoes, construction debris, tires, plastic bags, soiled carpet and lawn clippings – burst into flame and turn to ash and energy at an incinerator in Palm Beach County, Florida. “Right there is probably about...
A Mother’s Worst Nightmare
This article is a partnership between The New York Times Magazine and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. One morning in the summer of 2020, Jade Dass woke up and vomited. She assumed she was hung over; she’d been depressed lately and sometimes self-medicated with too much wine. But then a woman in her online counseling group suggested that she might be pregnant. Dass looked in the mirror and realized she was probably right.
After History of Discrimination, These Federal Contractors Fought to Hide Diversity Data
As the only woman on a 10-person sales team at Dell Inc., Marsha Cipollone said she was pushed down and pushed out while less-experienced men were handed the plum accounts. Cipollone said she was denied the training and support her male colleagues received and was set up to fail. She was fired in 2017 and sued, alleging discrimination, according to court records. She said she settled with the company in 2018.
People of Color Were Promised Equal Opportunity. Federal Contractors Are Failing.
Each year, thousands of companies land lucrative federal contracts, producing COVID-19 vaccines, manufacturing missile defense systems or serving hot meals. But taking a slice of the hundreds of billions the U.S. government spends each year on goods and services comes with strings. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed an executive...
No Longer a Trade Secret: Diversity Data from the Country’s Mega Contractors
Executives at companies that receive billions of dollars in federal contracts were less likely to reflect America’s diversity than their employees, according to a first-ever analysis by USA TODAY and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Some have been sued for workplace discrimination. In 2020, 21 companies each...
The COVID Tracking Project
This three-part series exposes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s bungled response to COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic and takes listeners inside the massive volunteer effort to collect data about tests, cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S. The United States has 4% of the...
Kentucky Lawmaker Pushes to Regulate Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers After Reveal Investigation
A state lawmaker is calling for Kentucky to regulate anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers after a Reveal investigation found that most centers aren’t subject to the same kind of oversight as other medical clinics, even though they perform procedures that can dramatically affect the lives of pregnant people. The Kentucky...
Florida Legislators Want to Vastly Expand State Funds for Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers
This article was published in partnership with the Miami Herald. The glass outside the Pregnancy Help Medical Clinics location in North Miami reads: “FREE pregnancy Testing, Walk-Ins Welcome, Ultrasound Verification, Confidential.”. Inside, it looks like a medical office: fake plants, a generic painting of an ocean and a TV...
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