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

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

Florida plans to close a privately run juvenile offener home that has been under scrutiny for alleged poor treatmetn of kids.

A Romney adviser files suit, on eve of convention, to stop Obama's youth program for temporary reprieve from deportation and work permits.

Aug. 15 start date for undocumented youths ages 15 to 30 to apply for deportation reprieve

A new report about state policies shows a rethinking in putting younger kids into adult court, police interaction with minority kids

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