By: Rose Schnabel |Report for America Corps Member Resilient Florida was created to provide funding to help communities prepare for the impacts of more frequent and severe flooding, but not all who are at risk get the help they need. “It was so heartening to see the Investigative Editor Corps as a whole, and Mc […]

Recovery has been slow but steady from the massive wildfires that swept through Lahaina on the island of Maui on Aug. 8, 2023. About 25 percent of the homes had been rebuilt as of July 15, 2026, and work continues, according to an analysis by AsAmNews of Maui County’s building permits. Photo illustration by Bailey Franzen with photos by Matthew Thayer/Special to AsAmNews

By Gerard Edic | Report for America Corps Member In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment requires states to provide lawyers to criminal defendants who cannot afford one. Mississippi delegates that responsibility to counties, a system civil rights attorneys say is inconsistent and ineffective. “Project Editor Shawn McIntosh […]

By Jabari Gibbs | Report for America Corps Member Flat-fee contracts don’t require documentation of work, raise questions about equity in circuit with high population of at-risk youth. “When budget cuts and feuds dominated the local judicial circuit, Report for America Corps member Jabari Gibbs immediately spotted potential problems as the district attorney abandoned juvenile […]

At Report for America, we’re inspired by the commitment that local newsrooms have to serving their communities. We know they are best positioned to tell the important local stories and hold power to account. Too often, small and mid-size newsrooms don’t have the necessary resources to dive deep into a local issue. In 2021, Report […]

By Julia Shanahan | Report for America Corps Member, Now Alum A two-year investigation finds a criminal justice system slowed by chronic delays, rotating judges, attorney shortages, and limited courtroom space “Simply put, our project would still be just a wishful idea had it not been for the Investigative Editing Corps, its project editor Dianna Hunt and Report for […]

By Jake Shore | Report for America Corps Member Every year, Georgia’s Division of Children and Family Services (DFCS) authorizes drug tests for thousands of parents who are under investigation for child mistreatment or are seeking to reunify with their children in the foster care system. The system is set up to protect children and […]

By Rachel Crumpler | Report for America Corps Member Teenagers in North Carolina’s juvenile justice system are routinely being locked alone in their rooms for as much as 23 to 24 hours a day, according to an ongoing federal lawsuit and advocates for young people in custody, despite state officials’ own acknowledgment of research showing that prolonged isolation […]

By Michaela Towfighi | Report for America Corps Member “Seized and Sold” – The Concord Monitor’s investigation of how some localities across the state aggressively seize homes of persons who fall behind on property taxes.  This story is part of a continuing series by Michaela Towfighi, a Report for America reporter with the Concord Monitor. The project is […]

By Joshua Yeager, Emma Foehringer Merchant | Report for America Corps Members California has set carbon-neutrality goals for 2045 in a move away from fossil fuels to combat global warming. Kern County, where oil and gas production is a key industry, is at the epicenter of this transition’s push and pull. KVPR News’ Joshua Yeager and Inside Climate […]