Reporter @UCBerkeleyIRP | past: @KGETnews, @KING5Seattle, @wdiowirt, @12News
Oakland, CA
Joined January 2012
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For decades, law enforcement agencies across California have used confidential settlements to bury the misconduct of their officers.
Our investigation (+@SmithCaseyA) examines the system that supports these secret deals. Check it out in the @sfchronicle. sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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In 2000, rookie Oakland cop Aaron McFarland wrote report saying he arrested man w drugs.
His probable cause for stop: the man had crossed a solid red light.
The problem: At that time of night the lights blink red.
@KateyRusch & I obtained new records:
sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
Prompted by our investigation (@UCBerkeleyIRP, @sfchronicle) that revealed the widespread use of secret deals that bury officers' misconduct records, @isaacgbryan introduced a bill that would effectively ban the practice. My latest for @sfchronicle: sfchronicle.com/politics/art…
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AMAZING!
Thank you @USCAnnenberg and the judges.
Congrats to @KateyRusch @SmithCaseyA @DavidBarstow and @UCBerkeleyIRP, who spent five years exposing this story.
And kudos to the huge team at @sfchronicle that joined the project.
Congrats @KateyRusch & @SmithCaseyA, winners of the 2025 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. Their “Right to Remain Secret” series w @UCBerkeleyIRP & @sfchronicle exposed confidential settlements by CA law enforcement to bury officer misconduct. annenberg.usc.edu/news/spotl…
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Congrats @KateyRusch & @SmithCaseyA, winners of the 2025 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. Their “Right to Remain Secret” series w @UCBerkeleyIRP & @sfchronicle exposed confidential settlements by CA law enforcement to bury officer misconduct. annenberg.usc.edu/news/spotl…
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NEW: Tony Robbins claims his events can heal depression. And he's got Stanford research to back it up.
But is the science legit? And why is Stanford throwing its weight behind a controversial guru?
My latest for @sfchronicle (gift link): tinyurl.com/muwadd9m
Part 2 of our @UCBerkeleyIRP and @sfchronicle investigation: Not only are some law enforcement agencies agreeing through secret deals to exit officers - in some cases, they promise disability pensions, despite laws in place to prevent it. sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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Today:
PART 2 of "Right to Remain Secret":
Police are using secret deals to hand disability pensions to troubled officers. Millions of taxpayer dollars support the system
By @KateyRusch — leading a joint @UCBerkeleyIRP & @sfchronicle investigation sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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For decades, law enforcement agencies across California have promised to whitewash officers’ alleged misconduct through confidential settlement agreements.
An investigation by The Chronicle and @UCBerkeleyIRP takes a look at how these deals go down.
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Read the IRP's latest investigation: IRP reporter @kateyrusch ('20) and alum @SmithCaseyA ('20) report for @sfchronicle on a secret system that has covered up police misconduct in California for decades, helping officers find new jobs in law enforcement. sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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A secret system covers up and perpetuates police misconduct in California.
We expose that system today.
It took 3 yrs of digging by @UCBerkeleyIRP reporters @KateyRusch and @SmithCaseyA and superb editing by @demianbulwa and the whole @sfchronicle team.
sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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Out today:
“RIGHT TO REMAIN SECRET”
This is the secret system that covers up police misconduct across California — and ensures problem officers can get hired again
Tour de force of deep investigative reporting by @KateyRusch and @SmithCaseyA
Free link: sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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So damn good. Read @KateyRusch's phenomenal series! Grateful our newspaper supports hard-charging investigative journalism like this.
This is a stunning investigation by @KateyRusch. Read this today.
Someone finally pierced the veil of police clean-record agreements. Secret pacts allowing troubled cops to get jobs at different departments.
sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
“Bottom line, got rid of a problem. Unfortunately, that problem went somewhere else,” said one police chief.
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Congrats to Lowell, @JenniferJanisch and @lkroening on the completion of this project. Can’t wait to see it. – at Albany, CA
For some politicians chaos isn't something to fear, it's just part of the game.
Directed by Academy Award-winner @alexgibneyfilm, #AgentsOfChaosHBO, a two-part documentary examining Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, premieres 9/23 on @HBO.
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🔥 Casey Smith ('20) holding the May 12, 2020 front page of The New York Times featuring her & Katey Rusch's story on how Santa Clara District Attorneys field thousands of complaints re stay-at-home violations, from our special collaboration @nytimes.
We could not be prouder.
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In an amazing morning surprise, @KateyRusch and I found our story on the front page of today's @nytimes ... incredibly honored to have our work among "All the News That's Fit to Print."
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Great profile of Angela Alvarado, the Santa Clara prosecutor who has to field complaints about stay-at-home violations, by @kateyrusch and @smithcaseya... nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/co…
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What’s OK and what’s not during shelter-in-place? @KateyRusch and I followed a veteran Santa Clara County prosecutor as she weighs this question daily from her kitchen table. Read our @nytimes piece to learn more ⬇️
Angela Alvarado, a veteran prosecutor in the Santa Clara district attorney’s office in California, has to weigh safety, freedom and the law as she fields complaints about stay-at-home violations nyti.ms/3fCK7vw