Lisa Pickoff-White
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California Reporting Project Director of Research. Former KQED, geek, b-movie lover, she/her. Signal user.
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Joined March 2008
This fall the California Reporting Project, and I, started working more closely with a national collaboration of engineers, attorneys, journalists and academics to build systems around police use of force and misconduct data. Why collaborate? There’s simply too much to do. 1/.
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RT @emilymzentner: 1/ Since the 1990s, medical & law enforcement experts have warned that restraining people facedown — called prone restra….
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Since the 1990s, law enforcement officials and medical experts have cautioned about the dangers of police-prone restraint, especially when people are high on stimulants or experiencing a mental...
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✨Some personal news ✨. Today is my first day as the California Reporting Project’s Director of Research. Our collaboration has FOIAed reports on police violence and misconduct in the Golden State since 2019.
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The California Reporting Project is a multi-newsroom collaborative formed to research and report on law enforcement documents that became public Jan. 1, 2019 under California’s new transparency law.
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RT @omarsrashad: Three months after our @fresnoland investigation into whether Fresno's budget process may have been violating California's….
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The ACLU of Northern California on Wednesday sued the Fresno City Council over alleged Brown Act violations first reported by Fresnoland.
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RT @the_nazmul: Two years of blood, sweat, and JavaScript since my @UCBSoJ days, building an entire interactive webpage from scratch and sl….
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An in-depth data analysis of alleged extrajudicial killings and acts of torture by Bangladesh’s security forces under the Sheikh Hasina regime.
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RT @keribla: For the past few months, the @latimes has been fighting for the release of videos showing deputies beating inmates in the LA j….
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The trove of jail security footage was released after The Times and Witness LA asked a federal judge to make the videos public.
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RT @charlesornstein: You simply can't discuss water policy in the US without discussing agriculture and history. @janetwilson66 and @Nat_La….
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Twenty families in the Imperial Valley received a whopping 386.5 billion gallons of the river’s water last year — more than three Western states. Century-old water rights guarantee that supply.
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RT @evanhill: 39 journalists have been killed in the first month of the Israel-Gaza War, the deadliest month since CPJ started keeping stat….
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RT @mercnews: Antioch police union president, acting chief found officers’ violence was justified before FBI deemed it criminal, new record….
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New records released by the city of Antioch show that police use-of-force incidents that are now charged as crimes were cleared by sergeants and lieutenants within the force, including the cityR…
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RT @palewire: Data journalism pioneer Phil Meyer is dead. He is remembered for teaching reporters how to do "social science in a hurry."….
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RT @gaufre: Journalist Mohammed Abu Hatab was killed by an Israeli airstrike yesterday, according to news reports. That's 36 journalists an….
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The Israel-Gaza war has taken an unprecedented toll on Gazan journalists since Israel declared war on Hamas following its attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. As of July 16, 2025, CPJ’s preliminary...
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RT @bethlaberge: ✨📷 Spring ‘24 KQED Visual Internship 📸✨. This is a paid, 16-hour-a-week internship with @KQEDnews, working with our visua….
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RT @jecosic: This one goes to all @ICIJorg partners around the world "Keep calm and collaborate" :).Thanks @ejcnet @globalfreemedia and s….
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RT @MeghanHoyer: Data journalism is 1/2 finding the data govt. collects and does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH, even when it could reunite owners….
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Based on the parking tickets it’s received, we may be able to locate it.
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RT @HattieRowan: We analyzed San Jose police records from 2014-2021, and found the majority of the 108 people seriously injured or killed w….
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RT @GuyMarzorati: This troubling trend of police force in San Jose is despite extensive training and a steady decline in @SanJosePD overall….
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Journalist Robert Salonga discusses an investigation by the Bay Area News Group, KQED and the California Reporting Project that found that the vast majority of people seriously injured or killed by...
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RT @GuyMarzorati: In recent years, the vast majority of people killed or seriously injured by @SanJosePD are mentally impaired. an eye-op….
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A first-of-its-kind investigation finds that a huge proportion of the people officers beat, tase, shoot or kill are mentally ill or intoxicated.
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RT @MarkianHawryluk: ACEP members approved a resolution this weekend to withdraw approval of a 2009 White Paper on excited delirium and to….
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RT @ljfernandez: If AB 360 is signed into law, California would be the first state in the United States to ban the term "excited delirium."….
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If AB 360 is signed into law, California would be the first state in the United States to ban the term "excited delirium." It was inspired by the death of an Antioch man.
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RT @CALFIRELNU: On this date six years ago, we saw the start of the devastating fire siege from the Tubbs & Atlas incidents. We have come a….
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