G.W. Schulz

Center for Investigative Reporting

Records show that communities across California had difficulty managing millions in anti-terrorism grants handed out by Congress after Sept.

Sept. 11 hastened a booming homeland security industry. One southern California company still struggled to get ahead.

Intelligence-led policing played a starring role in 2008's Republican National Convention, and eight political activists stand accused of co

In the second part of a two-part story, CIR looks at several of the cases flagged by intelligence-led policing during the 2008 Republican Na

The state of Minnesota’s unique privacy laws predate even the federal Privacy Act of 1974. They’re designed to protect sensitive personal in

Civil libertarians worry that fusion centers, financed with hundreds of millions of dollars in homeland security grants, are a throw-back to

The state of Colorado had its own fusion center. But authorities there refused a public-records request for documents showing what role the

Sarah Palin promotes the self-reliance of her state, but she doesn’t mention the mobile command communications vehicle, bought with federal