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Galvanized by Trump, These States Are Passing Harsh New Laws Against Immigrants
The Marshall Project
This story for The Marshall Project explores how states are criminalizing immigrants and immigration in 2025, creating a new legal landscape that will affect generations of foreign-born Americans.
How an antisemitic extremist in San Diego evaded hate crime prosecution
inewsource and KQED
Tracking the activities of this neo-Nazi helped prosecutors investigate and ultimately extradite the man to Amsterdam for displaying an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank House.
inewsource
This two-part investigation examines the COVID-19 crisis in San Diego’s prison that led to 18 deaths of incarcerated people. Because records are hard to come by and entering the facility was impossible, this project took a lot of deep sourcing and building trust with incarcerated people and their families.
Two years after Prop 47, addicts walk free with nowhere to go
The Desert Sun/USA TODAY
In 2014, California voters freed about 13,500 low-level offenders from crowded prisons and jails. But many ex-inmates have traded incarceration for a cycle of homelessness, drug abuse and petty crime.
Gaps in federal law cause delays in return of ancestral remains to California tribes
ABC News, Owned Television Stations
ABC data journalists across the U.S. worked together to report on the failures in federal law that delay the return of ancestral remains to Native Americans. I worked on a three-part series for ABC7 Los Angeles.
These officers committed misconduct. But what were the consequences?
inewsource and KPBS
By gathering and analyzing data, I was able to show the lack of recorded disciplinary action for San Diego Police officers in this three-part series for the web and radio.
Problems plague COVID-19 hotel after county pays company millions to run it
inewsource
This rolling investigation into the multi-million dollar program to help unhoused San Diegans during COVID-19 resulted in an independent audit corroborating my reporting’s findings. It also led my colleague and I to have our photos put up on wanted posters around the hotel.
The Desert Sun/USA TODAY
Emails sent to the federal government, obtained via a public records request, highlight a confusing border wall bidding process that may have overlooked qualified candidates for the sake of speed.
VA doctors are being overruled on veterans’ treatment plans. Here’s why.
ABC Owned Television Stations
This six-month investigation co-published by inewsource and USA TODAY exposed how the federal government has failed to deliver on its promise to care for U.S. veterans. The project led to a Congressional inquiry and calls to improve care for America’s veterans.
A San Diego nonprofit’s historical antiques landed in Mississippi. A bitter conflict followed
inewsource
This investigation uncovered serious ethical violations and breaches of trust that have splintered the prestigious board of directors at a San Diego nonprofit.
UCSD has not told women with HIV of data breach, despite researchers’ pleas
inewsource
University of California San Diego officials stonewalled attempts to notify women in an HIV research study that their confidential data was breached more than seven months earlier. This investigation published on the web and in a radio feature.
Democrats spent 37 times the contribution limit on Nathan Fletcher. And it’s legal.
inewsource
How did Nathan Fletcher get nearly $1 million in support from the local Democratic Party when the contribution limit is so much smaller than that?
How San Diego fueled California’s gas tax repeal effort
inewsource
It started as a few phone calls to a local radio station, and now could become the second taxpayer revolt in state history.
Salt Lake Tribune
Thousands of Utah’s American Indian students are barred from federal programs designed to help them succeed in school. Native Americans who aren't tribally enrolled are often prevented from joining them.
Campus Sexual Assault Can Cost Universities Millions
Forbes
As universities face increasingly intense scrutiny for their handling of sexual assault, the cost of accusations, formal charges and prevention measures is skyrocketing.
Another former employee sues the Pa. Attorney General's Office
Philadelphia Inquirer
Another former member of the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office is taking the office to court, in the sixth lawsuit brought by former state prosecutors, agents and administrators.
Busting barriers, Penn's top cop celebrates 20 years
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Maureen Rush was one of Philadelphia’s first 100 female police officers on street patrol in 1976. She climbed her way to the head of one of the largest university police forces in America.
Push For Campus Safety Means More Guns, Officers, Security Spending
Forbes
Tasers, laptop locks and security cameras don’t automatically come to mind when most people think of the college campus. But these devices are now present in quads and dorms across the country.
Behind the glass, a contested history
The Daily Pennsylvanian
This investigation revealed that the University of Pennsylvania had been keeping - and displaying - sacred items stolen from an Alaskan tribe and refusing to return them against the tribe’s wishes.
Are you driving next to a death trap?
ConsumerAffairs
My data analysis showed that millions of dangerous recalled vehicles are unrepaired. This story breaks down why so many people skip recall repairs and what the implications are for all of us.
Who says civil servants can't make good money?
Salt Lake Tribune
My analysis of salary data showed the number of city, county employees earning $100K in Utah jumped 64 percent in the past few years.