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After a local councilwoman in Louisiana crashed her vehicle into a parked car, she called the police chief from the scene, belittled the responding officers and wasn’t given a sobriety test, reporter Megan Wyatt found after reviewing body camera footage. THE ACADIANA ADVOCATE
Officials in a Georgia county agreed to give away land to a novice developer in a multimillion-dollar deal but reporters Zachary Hansen and Leon Stafford discovered that they didn’t properly vet the project. The developer was a two-time convicted felon who embellished his experience. ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
In California, a sheriff’s department is under investigation for the high number of jail deaths and reporter Christopher Damien reviewed how the agency responds and discovered even more deaths than had been publicly acknowledged and a practice of not notifying families when people are near death. DESERT SUN
Idaho officials are housing mentally ill people — who have not been convicted of a crime — in maximum security prison cells because the state has nowhere else to put them, Audrey Dutton reported. IDAHO CAPITAL SUN
A Florida attorney was tapped by nine cities to foreclose on homes for code violations, leading to a surge of such foreclosures in predominantly Black neighborhoods, occasionally for violations as minor as unkept lawns, a team reported. MIAMI HERALD
In Delaware, a caller threatened to kill students, the school went into lockdown and people called police 19 times — but it took 76 minutes for law enforcement to respond, Isabel Hughes reported. THE NEWS JOURNAL
The manager of a Washington state homeless shelter told reporter Becca Most that she was fired after taking complaints of unsafe conditions and other problems to the regional nonprofit that runs the facility. Other employees described a culture of intimidation, where management consistently undermined security and safety concerns. THE NEWS TRIBUNE
At least 31 people have died in Washington’s county jails since the introduction of a law mandating that jails report sudden deaths to the state, but reporter Sydney Brownstone found that many counties failed to report the deaths. THE SEATTLE TIMES
In previously unreleased interviews, police who responded to the Uvalde school shooting told investigators they were cowed by the shooter’s military-style rifle, Zach Despart reported. This drove their decision to wait for SWAT, which took more than an hour. TEXAS TRIBUNE
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