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He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame.
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The mother of Ravi Coutinho, the subject of a recent ProPublica investigation, is suing Centene for publishing “misleading” information that gave her son a false impression about the kinds of mental health care that were actually available.
https://www.propublica.org/article/centene-ghost-network-lawsuit-ambetter-ravi-coutinho?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Law #Therapy #Insurance #Health

A 2023 investigation by WPLN News and ProPublica found that Richard L. Bean was illegally locking kids up alone in cells.

A new scandal has forced his resignation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/richard-l-bean-steps-down-detention-center-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Tennessee #Children #Detention #Law

Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s political identity.

Yet he has helped President Donald Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-donald-trump-presidential-power-state-rights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #USPolitics #GregAbbott #Trump #NationalGuard #Election #Law

Two Families Sue After 11-Year-Old and 13-Year-Old Students Were Arrested Under Tennessee’s School Threat Law
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The lawsuits, filed in federal court this month, argue East Tennessee school officials violated students’ rights by calling the police on them under Tennessee’s threats of mass violence law.

#News #Tennessee #School #Education #Law #Lawsuit

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

State Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted.
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Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. He used the same method to vote in 2019 and 2020.

https://www.propublica.org/article/jefferson-griffin-military-absentee-votes-north-carolina-supreme-court?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Election #Vote #NorthCarolina #Law #Election2024

Lawmakers in at least seven states are filing more than a dozen bills to expand abortion access.

Some were introduced in direct response to ProPublica’s reporting on the fatal consequences of abortion bans.

https://www.propublica.org/article/state-lawmakers-seek-expanded-access-to-abortion-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Abortion #Law #Women #Health #Texas #Florida

Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds
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The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/department-labor-investigation-health-insurance-doctors-healthcare?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #MentalHealth #Insurance #Health #Government #Law

Is a New Mississippi Law Decreasing Jailings of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment? The State Doesn’t Know.
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Community mental health centers, counties and a state agency have reported vastly different numbers of people who spent time in jail while waiting to be treated for serious mental illness.

https://www.propublica.org/article/mississippi-law-mental-health-jailings-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Mississippi #MentalHealth #Law #Prison

More than two years after ProPublica sued the Navy, the Department of Defense is mandating public notice of military preliminary hearings.

Legal experts say the new guidance still falls far short of what is required under federal law.

https://www.propublica.org/article/military-courts-access-navy-propublica-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Government #DOD #Navy #Military #Law

Texas’ understaffed agricultural, restaurant and elder care sectors rely on workers who are undocumented.

“If you got serious about applying [E-Verify], you would create even worse problems” with labor shortages, said a former GOP state lawmaker.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-e-verify-requirements-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Immigration #Texas #Labor #Business #Law #USPolitics #GOP

#DrunkRapist #PeteHegseth readies *actions* against #Trump “foe” Retired General & former chairman of the #JointChiefsOfStaff #MarkMilley

The retired general, a frequent target of #Trump, will lose his #security detail & face an #InspectorGeneral [apparently there’s one left] investigation, said a senior #defense official.

#military #jcs #honor #integrity #IG #RevengePolitics #law #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/28/mark-milley-hegseth-trump/

Texas Lawmakers Pull Funding for Child Identification Kits Again After Newsrooms Report They Don’t Work
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For the second legislative session, lawmakers have withdrawn funding for a company selling kits that promise to help find missing kids after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported there’s no evidence to support that claim.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-child-id-kits-funding-pulled?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Law #Children #Safety #Budget #Government #Policy

The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-realpage-settlement-rental-price-fixing-case?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOJ #Rent #Law #Antitrust #Technology #Tech #Software

Three Months After Missouri Voted to Make Abortion Legal, Access Is Still Being Blocked
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Reproductive rights are now enshrined in the state constitution, but Missouri’s main abortion provider is fighting legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure. Meanwhile, anti-abortion lawmakers strategize to prevent a return of abortion services.

https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-ban-amendment-planned-parenthood-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Missouri #Abortion #Women #Health #Law #Government

This one’s just plain #weird

The day after #SeanDuffy was confirmed as #Trump’s transportation secretary, he signed a memo dictating how federal #transportation funds should be allocated.

The list of new criteria included one directive that stood out: All of the department’s grant & loan programs should prioritize projects in “communities with marriage & birthrates higher than the national average,” to the extent allowed by #law.

[a buses for pregnant women policy?]
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/trump-transportation-birth-rates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Unbelievable

#ElonMusk’s US #DOGE Service are feeding sensitive data into #AI software via #Microsoft’s #cloud

#Musk’s US #DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the #Education Dept into #ArtificialIntelligence software to probe the agency’s programs & spending….
The AI probe includes data w/personally identifiable info for people who manage grants, & sensitive internal financial data…

#law #security #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #NationalSecurity #Trump #TrumpCoup
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-ai-department-education/

ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who’ve joined the DOGE effort. Two of their names haven’t been previously reported as working for the Elon Musk-led initiative.

Here’s what we know about them: https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-doge-lawyers-supreme-court?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Law #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #DOGE #ElonMusk #Musk #USPolitics

By giving Elon Musk’s engineers access to USAID’s entire digital network, including personal information for thousands of employees, the Trump administration may have violated the Privacy Act of 1974, three experts told ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-trump-musk-destruction-may-have-broken-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ElonMusk #Musk #DOGE #USAID #Government #Trump #Law

The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
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Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — and the limits of the presidency.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-funding-freeze-workarounds?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Law #Trump #Congress #Government #USPolitics #Funding

A federal judge on Monday said the #Trump White House has defied his order to release billions of dollars in federal #grants, marking the first time a judge has expressly declared that the White House was disobeying a judicial mandate.

The ruling by Judge John J. McConnell Jr. in Rhode Island federal court ordered Trump admin ofcls to comply with what he called “the plain text” of an edict he issued last month.

#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/trump-unfreezing-federal-grants-judge-ruling.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.

We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.

https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-supreme-connections-database-new-filings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Law #Data #Research

Appeals Court Overturns Murder and Kidnapping Conviction in Etan Patz Disappearance
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The judges’ decision echoed ProPublica’s reporting from 2013 that raised questions about the veracity and legality of suspect Pedro Hernandez’s confessions in one of the most famous missing child cases in U.S. history.
https://www.propublica.org/article/etan-patz-pedro-hernandez-conviction-overturned-murder-kidnapping?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Crime #TrueCrime #Law #Police

Alaska Judge Vows to Reduce Trial Delays: “We Must, and We Will, Improve”
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Chief Justice Susan M. Carney’s comments follow ProPublica and Anchorage Daily News reporting that found the median time to resolve the most serious felonies in Alaska was three years in 2023 — triple the time it took a decade before.

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-judge-vows-to-curb-pretrial-delays?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Alaska #Crime #Law #CriminalJustice

Maricopa County’s and Arizona’s handling of the death penalty have been questioned for years. A 2016 report cited the county as one place with a history of “overzealous prosecutors, inadequate defense and a pattern of racial bias and exclusion.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-death-penalty-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Arizona #DeathPenalty #Crime #Law

Tennessee’s Law on School Threats Ensnared Students Who Posed No Risks. Two States Passed Similar Laws.

Despite an outcry over increased arrests in Tennessee, two states — Georgia and New Mexico — followed its lead by passing laws that will crack down harder on hoax threats.
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-threats-laws-georgia-new-mexico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Georgia #NewMexico #Tennessee #School #Law #Students #Education