Katey Rusch
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Reporter @UCBerkeleyIRP | past: @KGETnews, @KING5Seattle, @wdiowirt, @12News
Oakland, CA
Joined January 2012
For decades, law enforcement agencies across California have used confidential settlements to bury the misconduct of their officers. Our investigation (+@SmithCaseyA) examines the system that supports these secret deals. Check it out in the @sfchronicle.
sfchronicle.com
Behind locked drawers, in police departments all over California, sit documents no one is supposed to see. Known as clean-record agreements, they conceal officers' misconduct, helping them land new...
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Prompted by our investigation (@UCBerkeleyIRP, @sfchronicle) that revealed the widespread use of secret deals that bury officers' misconduct records, @isaacgbryan introduced a bill that would effectively ban the practice. My latest for @sfchronicle:
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A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would prohibit public safety officials...
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RT @demianbulwa: AMAZING!. Thank you @USCAnnenberg and the judges. Congrats to @KateyRusch @SmithCaseyA @DavidBarstow and @UCBerkeleyIRP,….
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RT @USCAnnenberg: Congrats @KateyRusch & @SmithCaseyA, winners of the 2025 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. Their “Right to R….
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In 2019, Katey Rusch was a student in the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She was researching police departments that had
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RT @susieneilson: NEW: Tony Robbins claims his events can heal depression. And he's got Stanford research to back it up. But is the scienc….
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Part 2 of our @UCBerkeleyIRP and @sfchronicle investigation: Not only are some law enforcement agencies agreeing through secret deals to exit officers - in some cases, they promise disability pensions, despite laws in place to prevent it.
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Some California police officers who get into trouble suddenly claim they’ve been injured. Their departments disagree, but still award them lifetime disability pensions.
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RT @demianbulwa: Today:. PART 2 of "Right to Remain Secret":. Police are using secret deals to hand disability pensions to troubled officer….
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Some California police officers who get into trouble suddenly claim they’ve been injured. Their departments disagree, but still award them lifetime disability pensions.
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RT @sfchronicle: For decades, law enforcement agencies across California have promised to whitewash officers’ alleged misconduct through co….
sfchronicle.com
Behind locked drawers, in police departments all over California, sit documents no one is supposed to see. Known as clean-record agreements, they conceal officers' misconduct, helping them land new...
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RT @UCBerkeleyIRP: Read the IRP's latest investigation: IRP reporter @kateyrusch ('20) and alum @SmithCaseyA ('20) report for @sfchronicle ….
sfchronicle.com
Behind locked drawers, in police departments all over California, sit documents no one is supposed to see. Known as clean-record agreements, they conceal officers' misconduct, helping them land new...
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RT @DavidBarstow: A secret system covers up and perpetuates police misconduct in California. We expose that system today. It took 3 yrs of….
sfchronicle.com
Behind locked drawers, in police departments all over California, sit documents no one is supposed to see. Known as clean-record agreements, they conceal officers' misconduct, helping them land new...
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RT @demianbulwa: Out today:. “RIGHT TO REMAIN SECRET”. This is the secret system that covers up police misconduct across California — and e….
sfchronicle.com
Behind locked drawers, in police departments all over California, sit documents no one is supposed to see. Known as clean-record agreements, they conceal officers' misconduct, helping them land new...
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RT @susieneilson: So damn good. Read @KateyRusch's phenomenal series! Grateful our newspaper supports hard-charging investigative journali….
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“Bottom line, got rid of a problem. Unfortunately, that problem went somewhere else,” said one police chief.
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RT @gtherolf: Congrats to Lowell, @JenniferJanisch and @lkroening on the completion of this project. Can’t wait to see it.
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RT @ucbsoj: 🔥 Casey Smith ('20) holding the May 12, 2020 front page of The New York Times featuring her & Katey Rusch's story on how Santa….
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RT @SmithCaseyA: In an amazing morning surprise, @KateyRusch and I found our story on the front page of today's @nytimes . incredibly hon….
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RT @Julesm_b: Great profile of Angela Alvarado, the Santa Clara prosecutor who has to field complaints about stay-at-home violations, by @k….
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Angela Alvarado, a veteran prosecutor in the Santa Clara district attorney’s office in California, has to weigh safety, freedom and the law as she fields complaints about stay-at-home violations.
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RT @SmithCaseyA: What’s OK and what’s not during shelter-in-place? @KateyRusch and I followed a veteran Santa Clara County prosecutor as sh….
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RT @UCBerkeleyIRP: "The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez," the Netflix documentary series based on years of reporting by the IRP's @gtherolf, is….
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