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Susan Ferriss

Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity
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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 Department guidelines follow disputes over standards for students

Los Angeles schools have the largest school police force in the nation, with officers issuing thosands of tickets every year to students.

As concerns over student-police relations rise nationally, data shows 40 percent of LA school police citations go to kids 14 and under.

UPDATED: Schools' police chief responds to new citations data.

California lawmakers want to stem tide of suspensions, expulsions; lawyer featured in Center story testifies about boy's case

Obama administration clashes with immigrant advocates over deportations of parents, and the definition of criminal immigrants.

Report on Kern County's student expulsion patterns informs debate on reform proposals before California legislators.

Children's Defense Fund says more kids killed by gunfire than military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gun-rights group used endorsements, campaign cash and political pressure to spread laws nationwide.

Details are emerging about a man who followed a black teen walking from a store, confronted him and shot him dead

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