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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

Charter schools lauded by Mayor Emanuel face parent unrest for collecting $5 fines that have added up to almost $400,000 since 2009

Public is often quick to want teens tried as adults, but research shows minors in adult system more likely to reoffend once free

Complaints lead to police limits on student ticketing, counseling for first offenses

Great Recession takes toll on Florida students, with homelessness spiking

Undocumented parents say they fear deportation if they talk about accused teacher

Cops, judges, politicians taking a new look at fines and handcuffs

Meeting called with Calif. state finance staff to consider possible closure of all state youth prisons

A task force in Los Angeles, Calif. attacks harsh school discipline, truancy dollar fines

Md. considers dramatic reduction of suspensions; Mich. school suspends boy for long hair

A Virginia dad wants alert from schools when discipline starts, and in California ACLU objects to police interrogating student journalists

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