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Justice Delayed for Months by Slow Police Response to Public Records Requests
An investigation by NBC Bay Area reveals that some of the largest police agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area are taking months and sometimes even a year or longer to release public records in the form of accident reports to the victims of traffic accidents.
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Investigators Launch Probe Into COVID Testing Company
Officials from the California Department of Public Health and Mountain View Police Department are investigating a series of complaints surrounding a Chicago-based COVID-19 testing company operating in the Bay Area.
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Exclusive: What Los Gatos High School Knew About Shannon O'Connor and What Officials Did About It
Internal emails from Los Gatos High School obtained by the Investigative Unit reveal some of the first allegations against Shannon O’Connor, the South Bay mother charged for hosting alcohol-fueled sex parties for kids.
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More ‘Megafires' Burning California Now Than Ever Before
If it seems like wildfires are becoming more frequent and destructive, you’re not imagining it. An analysis of wildfire data obtained by NBC owned television stations shows California has seen more megafires in the last 20 years than the previous 100 years combined.
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Mismanagement and Misspending: CA Schools Risk Losing $160 Million in COVID-19 Stimulus
California school districts may have to return as much as $160 million in federal COVID-19 stimulus funds due to the slow rate of spending, a state audit found. The report released Tuesday morning, confirms an NBC Bay Area investigation earlier this month that found the majority of school COVID-19 money is still unspent.
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CA Schools Got $26 Billion for COVID-19, How Did Your District Spend It?
Despite the financial windfall, some local teachers and school staff tell the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit they’ve seen very little of COVID-19 stimulus money go to address students’ learning needs in the classroom.
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Look Up How Your School District Spent Federal COVID-19 Stimulus Dollars
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit reviewed the most recent data from the California Department of Education for more than 1,500 school districts and charter schools to find out where money provided by the government in response of the pandemic actually went.
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Unlicensed Medical Examiners Prey on Grieving Families, Insiders Say
From medical malpractice, to police shootings, to COVID-19, the cause of someone’s death can have serious legal and public health ramifications. Forensic pathologists undergo years of specialized training to develop the medical expertise required to examine someone’s body and uncover all the factors that contributed to their death.
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Lawmakers Call High-Speed Rail Plan ‘Foolhardy,' Threaten to Pull Funding
As Congress works to finalize the largest infrastructure spending bill in decades, a growing number of state lawmakers in Sacramento have begun to raise doubts about California’s biggest venture, the high-speed rail project.
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Why California Can't Build Affordable Housing
For nearly a decade California has been in the grips of a housing crisis, however, despite the urgent need for affordable housing, the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit found hundreds of vacant lots and empty sites meant to provide affordable housing to thousands of Bay Area residents, currently being used for nothing.
