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#Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South.

One Town Grapples With Its Divided #Schools.

70 years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in this #Alabama town say they would like to see their #children schooled together.

But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it happen.

#News #Education #Race #School #Teachers #Families #Kids #Parents

https://www.propublica.org/article/camden-alabama-segregated-schools-brown-v-board

ProPublica, to Illinois
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School Districts Sent Kids to a For-Profit Out-of-State Facility That Isn’t Vetted or Monitored

A state was meant to help by allowing the use of public money to fund students’ tuition at special education boarding around the country.

But in solving one problem, lawmakers created another.

https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-shrub-oak-schools-students-special-education

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#Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of #Homeless People, Violating City Policy

The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones.

#NewMexico #Southwest #Law #Police #Housing #Unhoused #News #Homelessness #CivilRights #HumanRights

https://www.propublica.org/article/albuquerque-homeless-encampments

ProPublica, to Texas
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She Campaigned for a School Board Seat as a Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.

Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

New, from @JeremySchwartz

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore

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Also from today:

Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-tim-dunn-wilks-brothers-vouchers-courtney-gore

ProPublica, to Minnesota
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#Minnesota AG Sues Contract-for-Deed Seller Who Allegedly Targeted #Muslim Community

The complaint, which alleges violations of lending #law and religious discrimination, follows a ProPublica and Sahan Journal investigation.

#News #Minneapolis #Midwest #Religion #Fairness #RealEstate #Home #Housing #CivilRights

https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-attorney-general-sues-contract-for-deed-seller-chadwick-banken

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Read the full 2022 investigation that showed how, even though a contract-for-deed transaction seems like an easier path to homeownership, predatory practices and poor regulation can make it a financial trap:

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-contracts-for-deed-put-families-at-financial-risk

ProPublica, to Law
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Even When a #Cop Is Killed With an Illegally Purchased Weapon, the #Gun Store’s Name Is Kept Secret

A 2003 #law pushed by the gun industry limits the information shared by federal agents and shields gun shops from public scrutiny.

But ProPublica was able to identify the store that sold the gun used in the shooting of a #Chicago police officer.

#News #Guns #Midwest #ATF #FBI #Police #LawEnforcement #Transparency

https://www.propublica.org/article/guns-chicago-police-ella-french-indiana-tiahrt-amendment

ProPublica, to random
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New: #mississippi Lawmakers Move to Limit the Jail Detentions of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment

Supporters say the measure is a step forward in curbing the number of people jailed during civil commitment. But some local officials say the impact will be limited unless the state makes other changes, including adding psychiatric beds.

https://www.propublica.org/article/mississippi-lawmakers-jail-detentions-mentally-ill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

ProPublica, to chicago
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NEW: IRS Audit of #Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The #tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed #Chicago tower.

#News #Law #IRS #Taxes #RealEstate #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

ProPublica, to Georgia
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Promised to Fix How Challenges Are Handled.
A New Law Could Make the Problem Worse.

SB 189, which goes into effect in July, will give Georgia residents more time to contest the eligibility of fellow citizens’ inclusion on voter rolls.

The will make it easier to use questionable evidence in those challenges.

https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-law-could-lead-to-more-voter-suppression

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Last year, we revealed that almost all of the nearly 100,000 voter registrations challenged in Georgia had been filed by just 6 right-wing activists:

https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-activists-georgia-voter-challenges

ProPublica, to news
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Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference

At a conference meant to address the plastic crisis, pro-plastic messaging was inescapable.

Meanwhile, industry insiders — some positioned as government delegates — were given access to vital negotiations.

#News #Plastic #Environment #UN #Ottawa #Pollution

https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-waste-united-nations-international-conference-treaty-ottawa

ProPublica, to news
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Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record?

Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next.

The department’s public site for tracking officers’ discipline is shockingly unreliable, a ProPublica analysis found.

Cases against officers frequently vanish for days — sometimes weeks — at a time.

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-police-displicine-records-database-accountability-misconduct

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Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree.

The secretary of state told that had adequately punished a soldier who got community service for killing an unarmed .

Government officials call it a “mockery” and inconsistent with the .

https://www.propublica.org/article/blinken-israel-military-aid-human-rights-violations-leahy-law

ProPublica, to DadBin
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This for Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered.

No state agency has authority over Shrub Oak, one of the country's most expensive therapeutic boarding .

As a result, and staff have nowhere to report bruised and medication mix-ups.

https://www.propublica.org/article/shrub-oak-school-autism-new-york-education-oversight?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

ProPublica, to news
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Facing Unchecked Syphilis , Great Plains Tribes Sought Federal Help.

Months Later, No One Has Responded.

The rate among people in the Great Plains is higher than at any point in 80 years of records.

More than 3% of American babies born in last year had the preventable and curable — but potentially fatal — disease.

https://www.propublica.org/article/syphilis-south-dakota-great-plains-tribes-hhs-becerra?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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"Friends of the Court," ProPublica's investigation into Supreme Court justices' beneficial relationships with billionaire donors, has been awarded the Prize for Public Service!

Here are the highlights from the reporting (THREAD)

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7/ Thomas also attended at least 2 donor summits tied to the Koch network, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network involved in multiple cases before SCOTUS.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

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8/ Thomas wasn't alone in failing to disclose luxury getaways with ultrawealthy friends. This story revealed that Justice Samuel Alito had not disclosed an Alaskan fishing trip with a hedge fund manager who later had multiple cases heard by SCOTUS:

https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

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9/ The Judicial Conference, led by the SCOTUS chief justice, is tasked with policing federal jurists' ethics issues, but as Kirsten Berg & Brett Murphy showed, it has spent decades preserving perks, defending judges and thwarting outside oversight.

https://www.propublica.org/article/judicial-conference-scotus-federal-judges-ethics-rules

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10/ In a statement, Crow previously told ProPublica he never sought to influence Thomas and the “hospitality” he’s given Thomas was “no different from the hospitality we have extended to our many other dear friends.”

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11/ Alito said that he was not required to disclose the gift, and that when the billionaire’s companies came before the court, Alito was unaware of his connection to the cases.⁠

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12/ Thomas has said the Crows “are among our dearest friends,” and that, “As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips.”

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13/ A representative for the Koch network said Thomas was not “present for fundraising conversations” and that “The idea that attending a couple events to promote a book or give dinner remarks, as all the justices do, could somehow be undue influence just doesn’t hold water.”

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14/ Follow the entire "Friends of the Court" series here:
https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-scotus

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