Phoenix PD is the latest police agency to decide it will release *ALL* body cam videos *ENTIRELY* blurred out. Oh, but if you "determine that a specific segment requires clearer visibility," then you can file *ANOTHER* request for *JUST THAT PORTION OF VIDEO* actually visible. What BS.

I’m so grateful to Priscilla Alvarez for running down what is actually going on here. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/p...

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

Great reporting here by @sophianabours.bsky.social and @geoffhing.bsky.social for @themarshallproject.org about the impacts of the DOJ's cuts to community programs that support victims of violence: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/05/t...

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds. capitalbnews.org/black-displa...

Missouri adopted a law that ends St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the GOP-run state government. The law also requires St. Louis to commit 25% of its budget to policing. boltsmag.org/missour...

Mayor Brandon Johnson makes it official: He has vetoed to an ordinance that would allow Chicago Police Department officials to preemptively impose a curfew anywhere in the city and begin enforcing it with just 30 minutes notice. The text of the first mayoral veto in 19 years: @wttw.bsky.social

If you use @quantumfiber.bsky.social and your connectivity is down, try manually setting your DNS server to something like Cloudflare's (1.1.1.1). That restored my ability to use my Quantum Fiber internet connection.

I spoke to some experts about related issues for a Teen Vogue column & a point I keep thinking about is that the wages many young people have are so low, it’s impossible to pay bills, buy a car, etc. Throw in “5 years of experience for an entry-level job” and it feels impossible to make headway.

This is an incredibly sad story about ICE taking a child who had already endured so much in handcuffs and shackles. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

NEW — Iranian asylum seeker in ICE detention center goes on hunger strike: "I will not eat until my voice is heard and I am free." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Of course, CPD has plentiful rules and regulations but it’s worth understanding that the Chicago FOP — representing the very wide majority of cops you see at protests — is vociferously in favor of the Trump administration’s actions against immigrants. www.chicagofop.org/images/Feb.pdf

Phoenix New Times spotted ICE and Homeland Security Investigations at at least three spots on the west side of the Valley. Eventually, a scuffle broke out between a few protesters and Peoria police, and one protester was subdued with a Taser . MORE: bit.ly/3Zpi4Iz

New from 404 Media: DHS flew Predator drones over the LA anti-ICE protests. As well as flight data this is further corroborated with air traffic control audio. The audio mentions "TROY" (callsign used by DHS) and "Q-9" (shorthand for MQ-9, the Predator B drones) www.404media.co/dhs-flew-pre...

Sheriffs are hugely important to Trump’s mass deportation plan. They’ve lately been rushing to partner with ICE. So we really should talk about ways in which Democrats are *not* fighting back against growing sheriff-ICE cooperation. I have a story out today on this: boltsmag.org/sheriff-elec...

"The drones are a part of Sacramento County Probation’s equity and inclusion mission, which includes “removing access barriers and serving hard-to-reach communities,” Wherry added. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Unión del Barrio first started its community patrol program more than thirty years ago in response to police harassment of Latinos. The group reactivated its community patrols recently in response to increased federal immigration enforcement in San Diego. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

Seems notable that sheriff's deputies had to escort the ICE van through the crowd--another example of federal immigration arrests made possible by local law enforcement cooperation

Trump Time Limits Could Displace 300k NYC Residents "NYCHA calculated that 316,000...residents residing in public housing and in Section 8 private landlord properties ...are under the age of 62 and do not report a disability...accounts for 61% of the tenants receiving rental assistance via NYCHA."

Proposals that aim to counter affirming LGBTQ+ students are becoming common in public school districts across Arizona where far-right conservatives have secured board seats. This shift is partly driven by the efforts of a little-known statewide group. Dig into www.lookoutnews.org/the-quiet-co...

“Hey Ruben, if you can’t stand up for trans kids, maybe Congress isn’t the right place for you—and let’s find another activity for you to make fair competition,” DuMont said. www.lookoutnews.org/arizona-yout...

Tucson residents say immigration agents posed as utility workers, in an attempt to detain an undocumented man from Honduras. “They’re lying! They're not in uniform,” neighbor Christine Cariño warned, in a video she recorded. "Don't let them in; they don't have a warrant." tucson.com/news/local/b...

1/ The day after the Antioch High shooting, Nashville police arrested a 12-year-old for posting a concerning screenshot on Instagram. His school was supposed to figure out if it was a valid threat. Instead, the school expelled him with no further investigation.

Good time to read up on how Medicaid cuts increase crime rates: boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

A team of my colleagues at @invisible.institute have been working hard on this reporting for months, and I’m excited to see it out in the world today. Please read below, and congratulations to @mizamudio.bsky.social and Dana Brozost-Kelleher, among many others, on this story.

Due to climate pressures, home insurance prices could, on average, leap an additional 29% over the next 30 years, a research firm found. In Sacramento, California, rates could double. In Miami, they could quadruple. By @abrahm.bsky.social‬ (Published Feb. 2025)

Here is the great tip sheet that @geoffhing.bsky.social compiled of all the things we discussed in our #PyConUS keynote this morning, and more: is.gd/tmppyconus If you would like to get involved and meet more data journalists, please come to @ire.org’s #NICAR26 in March in Indianapolis!

At 9 am I’ll be onstage at the morning #PyConUS keynote, in a fireside chat with @geoffhing.bsky.social and @kazilico.bsky.social about criminal justice, investigative reporting & @themarshallproject.org. 😬 After that, I’ll be in an open space at 310/311 for anyone who wants to talk journalism.

When you look closely, the contours of how cities in the U.S. respond to encampments, can be quite different. That Pittsburgh cleared an encampment only after the people there had been moved into more stable housing, beyond just emergency shelter, really stands out.

How often does the Pima County Sheriff’s Department contact Border Patrol for assistance? They stopped keeping track. azluminaria.org/2025/05/15/p...

Can't believe that I'm going to give a @pycon.us keynote this weekend with my @themarshallproject.org colleague @geoffhing.bsky.social and the brilliant @kazilico.bsky.social, talking about using Python for investigative journalism. Unreal. us.pycon.org/2025/about/k...

"Massive Blue has signed a $360,000 contract with Pinal County, Arizona, which is between Tucson and Phoenix. The county is paying for the contract with an anti-human trafficking grant from the Arizona Department of Public Safety." www.wired.com/story/massiv...

“We cannot allow those who are sowing division to win. Blaming immigrants is an age-old trick to create fear and distract us from the takeover of our economy by billionaires.”--IUE-CWA President Carl Kennebrew. Reporting by @lfelizleon.bsky.social

PorlandHerald Apr 7 -- Atty Genl announces on "Fox and Friends" that DOJ is pulling all nonessential funding from Maine prisons over a single trans woman housed in a women's unit. The amount reportedly comes to about $1.5m. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

This Github ticket is the kind of proposal that inexperienced engineers tend to make, because they think it's about code, and not about the humans who use the system. In any competent organization, these junior folks would get some very direct feedback and it would be a growth moment.

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

"The Trump administration’s admission of a potentially life-threatening mistake — and its refusal to attempt to correct it — comes amid accusations that federal officers are increasingly turning to inhumane and illegal tactics ..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“'Our continuum of care has not had a problem filling units,' Loving said. 'We have a problem with the lack of housing options for people.'" www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/18/m...

"Central Arizona Shelter Services is a block away from where the man was left. The statement did not say why officers didn’t take him to the entrance." www.abc15.com/news/local-n...

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

Partial TRO issued in WilmerHale's lawsuit challenging the White House executive order targeting the law firm: "There is no doubt this retaliatory action chills speech and legal advocacy, or that it qualifies as a constitutional harm." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Of note, this is what Pa law says the coroners job is. Identifying potential criminal wrongdoing or neglect is right there next to determining cause and manner of death.

Hetrick repeated said “it’s not my job” to call out problems with Dauphin County Prison, where 22 people have died since 2019.

The “crime panic” was a myth. But an analysis by The Appeal shows the narrative helped local police buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, social media surveillance tech, and more. theappeal.org/shoplifting-...

"The Baltimore facility isn't included in ICE's detention occupancy report — one of the signs that the actual number of detainees being held in the system could far exceed the 46,000 total released publicly." www.axios.com/2025/03/23/i...

Last week, ICE arrested one person at a San Diego homeless shelter. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/22/i...