A Columbus Dispatch investigation of domestic violence in 2009 found flaws in Ohio laws and policies that created a culture of tolerance. Two years later, more agencies are reporting more abuse and deaths, yet reform legislation remains stalled.
"Bloomberg BusniessWeek reports that almost 15,000 federal retirees, including former leaders of Congress, a university president and a banker, are receiving six-figure pensions from a system that faces a $674.2 billion shortfall.
Charles R. Babcock and Frank Bass obtained data that shows about one of every 125 retired federal civilian workers collects more than $100,000 in benefits annually."
"An investigation by The Bay Citizen has found that California is a haven for diploma mills and unaccredited schools. The paper found that the state has given approvals to hundreds of dubious programs and has not inspected some of these schools for decades."
The Bay Citizen reports that the Internet banking giant, ING Direct USA, may be trying to bypass regulation by opening "cafes" instead of branches. By not offering deposits at the cafe, ING does not have to follow regulation that requires banks to lend money to low- and moderate-income borrowers in metropolitan areas.
ING claims the cafes are a marketing tool, and denies trying ot skirt the law.
originated 705 loans in the Bay Area in 2010, but provided only three to African-American borrowers and six to Hispanics.
Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/158du)
"Case files from Sacramento County Child Protective Services, recently obtained by The Sacramento Bee show how a two-year old girl died. However, the records do not explain how the agency made the decision to return the child to care that led to her death."
After countless reports of abuse and neglect, including 8 missed doctor's appointments for her heart defect and cleft palate, CPS put the child in foster care. However, just months later, she was returned to her parents, a move that requires CPS to convince a dependency court judge that the conditions that originally made the home unsafe had been fixed.
CPS must convince a dependency court judge that the conditions that originally made the home unsafe had been fixed.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/26/4145705/reasons-unclear-for-fatal-cps.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
how the agency made the decision to return the child to care that led to her death.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/26/4145705/reasons-unclear-for-fatal-cps.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
how the agency made the decision to return the child to care that led to her death.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/26/4145705/reasons-unclear-for-fatal-cps.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
how the agency made the decision to return the child to care that led to her death.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/26/4145705/reasons-unclear-for-fatal-cps.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
how the agency made the decision to return the child to care that led to her death.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/26/4145705/reasons-unclear-for-fatal-cps.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
how the agency made the decision to return the child to care that led to her death.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/26/4145705/reasons-unclear-for-fatal-cps.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
Case files from Sacramento County Child Protective Services, recently obtained by The Bee, show how the 2-year-old girl died. Court records show that her parents, Jose Jaime Melchor, 35, and Elizabeth Melchor, 29, pleaded no contest to child endangerment charges in July and were deported this year.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/26/4145705/reasons-unclear-for-fatal-cps.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
Case files from Sacramento County Child Protective Services, recently obtained by The Bee, show how the 2-year-old girl died. Court records show that her parents, Jose Jaime Melchor, 35, and Elizabeth Melchor, 29, pleaded no contest to child endangerment charges in July and were deported this year.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/26/4145705/reasons-unclear-for-fatal-cps.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
In a recent analysis of 46,000 traffic stops, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Ben Poston found that black resident drivers are "seven times as likely to be stopped by city police as a white resident driver." Additionally, the study found that "Milwaukee police pulled over Hispanic city motorists nearly five times as often as white drivers."
Poston also reports that "the disparities found in Milwaukee are greater than other large metro police departments where traffic stop data is collected, including Charlotte, Kansas City, Raleigh and St. Louis."
ScrippsNews' Isaac Wolf found that "for thousands of teens accused of crimes, punishment precedes any conviction in court. While awaiting trial and ostensibly presumed innocent, they can be held for months or even years in county jails for -- and sometimes with -- adult suspects.
Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics data shows, in 2010, roughly 5,600 suspects at any given time lack "sight and sound" protection."
"The United States has deported more than 250 Haitians since January knowing that one in two will be jailed without charges in facilities so filthy they pose life-threatening health risks.
An investigation by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting found that the Obama administration has not followed its own policy of seeking alternatives to deportation when there are serious medical and humanitarian concerns."
Trevor Aaronson wrote a behind the scenes account of how this project became a reality.
When the mayor of Mount Vernon, Wash., requested that a liquor license be denied, he claimed it had to do with the proposed location of the business. However, when Kate Martin, of the Skagit Valley Herald checked with the local police department, the numbers didn’t add up.
“Too many 911 calls have been made from that location, he said. But an analysis of information from the Mount Vernon Police Department does not support the mayor’s claim. Since 2000, police have responded to 16 calls at 517 S. First St., the proposed location of Calle Tacos Tequila. Conversely, police have responded to 471 incidents at Draft Pic’s, the sports bar directly across the street at 516 S. First St.”
After this story originally ran, the mayor did issue a one-sentence statement to say that he no longer opposed the business’ location.
Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital, which offers care to much of the poor community in the Dallas County area, have been targeted by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. They found countless incidents of deficiencies in the hospital, including “patients lost in hallways, buckled over in pain. Children discharged without medical screening or stabilizing care. Emergency room patients repeatedly placed in dirty bedding.”
The hospital must address the problems or face losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal health care funding. If the agency, on reinspection, finds that the patient care deficiencies aren’t corrected, Parkland could lose nearly half its patient revenue.
Update: Aug. 23- Brooks Egerton reports on the hospital’s dirty OB/GYN clinic.
http://www.dallasnews.com/investigations/patient-safety/headlines/20110820-hygiene-woes-at-dallas-countys-parkland-hospital-led-to-obgyn-alerts.ece
