May 3, 2013, 12:00 AM
California's attorney general has joined the U.S. Department of Justice and several other states in a whistleblower lawsuit against for-profit educational firm Education Management Corp. See which attorneys general in other states have launched investigations of for-profit colleges.
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April 30, 2013, 3:05 AM
As the national debate grows louder over deploying police in schools, the largest state in the union – California – is considering a bill that would require schools to set “clear guidelines” defining the role of school police and limit their involvement in...
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April 18, 2013, 12:05 AM
To commemorate the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and follow up on our investigation into the seismic safety of California’s schools, the Center for Investigate Reporting is teaming up with the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter today for a “prep rally” on seismic...
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April 16, 2013, 10:24 AM
SACRAMENTO – The lowest-bidding partnership for the first segment of California’s high-speed rail line includes a firm with a history of cost overruns and costly lawsuits. The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Friday announced that the American joint venture of Tutor Perini/...
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April 15, 2013, 12:05 PM
Broken Shield investigation that exposed patient abuse at state developmental centers a top contender for journalism's highest honor.
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April 15, 2013, 10:14 AM
A trio of American companies outbid four other teams of contractors vying for the contract to build the first segment of California's proposed high-speed train system in the San Joaquin Valley – and for several hundred million dollars less than state engineers estimated. The...
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April 11, 2013, 7:09 PM
SACRAMENTO – State lawmakers weighed today whether to appoint an inspector general to oversee state centers for the developmentally disabled and close a center in Sonoma where patients suffered the worst instances of abuse, neglect and sexual assaults. During a daylong hearing, members...
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April 10, 2013, 6:05 PM
Legal experts and residents question the widespread practice of assigning former police officers to examine officer-involved shootings.
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April 10, 2013, 6:05 PM
When a police officer shoots and kills someone, how does your district attorney's office respond?
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April 10, 2013, 6:05 PM
Using information from the police department, we created a map of each officer-involved shooting, fatal and nonfatal, between 2000 and 2012.
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April 10, 2013, 5:19 PM
The state’s influential legislative analyst is recommending that the California Legislature create an independent Office of Inspector General to monitor state developmental centers where police failed to properly investigate patient deaths, abuse, sexual assault and neglect. The proposal...
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April 10, 2013, 8:17 AM
The Center for Investigative Reporting’s California Watch today scored two top national awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors for a series that exposed shoddy practices by an internal police force patrolling California’s developmental centers for the disabled. The series...
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March 29, 2013, 12:05 AM
A dozen Southern California doctors are accusing the leadership of a Prime Healthcare Services hospital of refusing to notify them about their patients because they won’t engage in profit-driven practices, according to a request for a restraining order filed this week. The San Bernardino...
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March 28, 2013, 6:05 AM
LONG BEACH – Youthful rebellion can come in many guises, from being anti-Google to defending animal rights. But for an all-female group of Cambodian American teens in Long Beach, home to the country’s largest Cambodian community, the target of their adolescent disaffection is their...
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March 27, 2013, 1:26 PM
The unincorporated neighborhood of Parklawn, one of hundreds of impoverished California communities that lack basic services, celebrated a breakthrough this month when Stanislaus County broke ground on a new sewer line connecting the district to the city of Modesto. Parklawn, which has...
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