Senate Bill 1293 would authorize spending $2 million on three one-year pilot projects of predictive policing software in urban and rural areas to generate predictions for various types of crime.
Category: Inequality
Posted inCriminal Justice, Immigration, Law Enforcement
Air marshals say a party-hearty attitude prevails at the agency
Former and current air marshals are coming forward to describe a “wheels-up, rings-off” culture rife with adultery, prostitution and other misconduct.
Posted inImmigration, Techsploitation, Worked Over
Senator cites CIR investigation in hearing on abuse of tech workers
In a hearing this week about the H-1B visa program, Sen. Chuck Grassley cited The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Techsploitation series, which found widespread abuse of foreign high-tech workers in the U.S.
Posted inSubsidized Squalor
FBI joins fraud investigation of Bay Area public housing agency
A government probe into allegations of nepotism and fraud at the Richmond Housing Authority has expanded, with local police now joined by a team of FBI agents, federal housing investigators and county prosecutors.
Posted inSubsidized Squalor
Neglected housing project to be emptied within 6 months, officials say
Residents of the Richmond, California, public housing complex, many of whom are elderly and disabled, will be given Section 8 vouchers next week, along with assistance to help them find housing on the private market.
Posted inSubsidized Squalor
Moving day on horizon for residents of Bay Area public housing complex
The federal government approved the estimated $1 million needed to relocate the residents of the Hacienda building – Richmond, California’s worst public housing complex – nearly a year after city officials deemed it uninhabitable.
Posted inWorked Over, Workers’ Rights
Whistleblowing wins are almost as hard as getting into the NFL
In the decade wrapping up in 2014, only 439 out of more than 23,000 whistleblower complaints were found to have merit.
Posted inDay Care, Worked Over
An absurd quest for records
How safe is your child’s day care? State inspection reports are public records, but it’s accessing them that’s a problem for many parents.
Posted inHealth Care, Worked Over
Surrogacy south of the border
Business is booming for the surrogacy industry in Mexico. Reveal reporter Sandra Bartlett discovers what can go wrong when one of the biggest players in the baby game closes up shop and goes bankrupt.
Posted inGovernment Workers, Worked Over
Thousands of California state workers are hoarding vacation days
More than 35,000 California state employees have gone over the official cap of 80 vacation days. The state owes those employees $447 million more than