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From school safety, to secret police, to environmental toxins, Why Don’t We Know the information we need to keep us safe? To make our systems more just? To protect ourselves from the things that are hurting us? How is privacy being weaponized to protect those doing harm, instead of those who are being harmed? This ... is Why Don’t We Know.
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Update frequency:
every 73 days
Average audio length:
34 minutes
English
United States
30 episodes
since Aug. 4, 2020
episodic
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We close out Why Don't We Know with a huge victory - a win against the abuse of FERPA, the federal privacy law that often leads to harmful secrets in schools. In this episode, we beat FERPA to get a video of an encounter between a school police officer and a student in Jeannette, Pennsylvania.
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The complicated and misunderstood history of having police officers in schools, and one group of students first-hand stories of what it means to have them in their hallways.
In our final drop of episodes for Why Don’t We Know, we explore the secrecy of the juvenile justice system, starting with how kids are often punished with fees and fines.
More than 30 states allow kids to be fined while in the juvenile system, and it’s very difficult to figure out how many childr…
What happens when a police officer breaks the silent code and speaks out about misconduct? This is the story of Cariol Horne, a former Buffalo cop who tried to do the right thing and is paying the price.
In May of 2015, shortly after the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer, former President Barack Obama traveled to Camden, New Jersey to announce a new program that was supposed to help repair the broken relationship between police and communities of col…
After the nationwide protests following George Floyd’s death, we did a little experiment to see if we could get body worn camera footage from officers at the scene of protests where we knew there were injuries.
Host: Sara Ganim. Reporters: Kristin Moorehead, Thomas Holton. Guests: Mary D. Fan, Dan…
Season 2 of Why Don’t We Know starts here, with a preview of our season about secrecy in the criminal justice system. Host Sara Ganim starts by explaining why we are here and how we found our reporting.
Host: Sara Ganim. Editors: Amy Fu, James Sullivan. Original score: Pete Readman. Research: Audr…
In the moments after 21-year-old Kevin Peterson Jr. was killed, Clark County Sheriff Chuck Atkins took to a podium to defend his deputies.
Although he started with a warning, “I am waiting along with you to learn about much of the details,” Atkins speculated about something significant that would…
In this special episode, we bring you a live taping of the first-ever Brechner Speaker Series, co-hosted by the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, featuring award-winning investigative reporter Jason Leopold, who has broken some of the top stori…
In this special episode, taped live at SXSW EDU in Austin, Texas in March, we discuss how schools are bullying young sexual assault accusers into waiving their rights during school investigations into what happened to them. Title IX is supposed to protect students who allege sexual assault, but som…
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