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

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

A new federal report recommends serious study, reconsideration of imprisoning youths as adults

New director: Georgia's youth prisons troubled by guard turnover, workers having sex with wards and more violent population

Brown, legislators tussle over proposed closure of last three youth facilities

New York has tough fines for violating a ban on real-looking guns, a law to protect kids

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