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Susan Ferriss

Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity
sferriss@publicintegrity.org
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Susan Ferriss has investigated a range of issues, from environmental destruction and real-estate fraud to police corruption and international drug trafficking. As a prize-winning Latin America correspondent for Cox Newspapers, her reports included stories on child labor, child migration and transnational gangs. She also covered California state government, politics and immigration at the Sacramento Bee. Susan is co-author of The Fight in the Fields, a history of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement.

Coverage areas

Education official Russlynn Ali focused on disparities in school discipline

A new GOP idea would allow undocumented youth to earn limited legal status, but not a green card, the prerequisite to citizenship.

Study says marijuana decriminalization measure affected juvenile justice in California.

New report: Minors in 'solitary' hallucinate, harm themselves

The record of some GOP members of Congress shows it will take work to persuade them to embrace immigration reform.

Disclosure that a GOP candidate for California's state legislature shakes up local GOP, including House whip, Kevin McCarthy

Alleges that state, county and city of Meridian are operating 'school to prison pipeline'

Immigrant spouses struggling to understand changing laws, partisan politics

Immigration measure has split husbands from wives, children from parents.

Oakland school board allows federal officials to monitor efforts to reduce the high suspension rates for African-American students

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