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'California officials are working to decertify potentially thousands of police officers accused of serious misconduct under a new state law, but in some cases basic details of the alleged misconduct is secret.'

By Sophia Bollag

sfchronicle.com/politics/artic… via San Francisco Chronicle

As a journalist I have no qualms about advocating for the public's right to know.

There's a great public interest in knowing what happened with the Wyo wolf allegedly tortured, but Wyoming Game & Fish has clammed up.

Its rationale is questionable.

WyoFile story:
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Ugh.

CA's home insurance crisis has been building 4 a while but it's reaching dire new heights. Homeowners dropped in record # & an insurer of last resort that is underfunded, overwhelmed & leaving homes & people at risk. Still, a # of solutions being debated. pressdemocrat.com/article/news/s…

More killer local investigative reporting from Emma R. Murphy and Martin Espinoza

This story has been updated after an afternoon interview with DEMA CEO Patino. She asks why the county paid her bills for 3.5 years if they weren’t properly documented.

“If they wanted something different when they were paying on my invoices, why didn't they tell me?” she said.

Accountants hired by Sonoma Co. tested $5.5 million in billing from homeless services provider DEMA, in response to our reporting

$2.3 million can't be accounted for, they found, because DEMA didn't keep time records for salaried employees.

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Today's The Baltimore Sun front page with details of the devastating Key Bridge collapse

A year ago, we started looking into the numbers of people dying in jail. This is the first story in a series that looks at one of the deadliest periods in CA jails history.

Gov. Newsom pledged in 2020 to address jail deaths. In every year since, more people have died in jails.

I burrowed way down in the sand this Friday, still pulling sand out of my ears, to make images of Velella velella (by-the-wind sailors) which are washing up by the millions along the CA. and OR. coastlines. Yes, the more there are, the worse it smells. The Press Democrat

Watched a lot of bodycam of the March 4 shootout and car chase that was released Friday and tried to capture the chaos and tragedy of that footage for the Sunday edition.

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PD editorial on DEMA report:
'County residents don’t even know precisely who participated in the meeting. Nothing in state or local laws compels such secrecy. If the findings are ready for supervisors to see, they ought to be ready for the public, too.'

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'Drop the gun, I'll shoot you!' the deputy yells. And he does, precisely as the 18-year-old suspect takes a gun from his pocket and chucks it. Was Joshua Coleman's fifth on-the-job shooting justified? Now we can see the video for ourselves.
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Adopting better living habits in hopes I live long enough to see the release of the Sonoma County audit my reporting kicked off in July

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SF Chronicle news headline: 'Voters make it clear: San Francisco can no longer be called a progressive city'

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It's probably going to be days before anyone calls this race, with Cal Dem chair Hicks and Santa Rosa's Rogers neck and neck and Healdsburg's Kelley not far behind.

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“A recent opening for a staff writer position Defector received 700 applications.”

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theguardian.com/media/2024/mar…

Sonoma County supervisors have received a draft report of the investigation into DEMA's billing and discussed it behind closed doors - citing threats of litigation from the company's CEO.

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