Reporters who use “they say” in an interview like this have essentially adopted the politicized framing of the issue — rather than citing (and showing) what the law actually says.
Update: Covering our youth 🎬☺️📚🤓🎥
City of St. Louis Education community
Lots of news in the St. Louis Public Schools community today! Sharing this here:
At 4p ET/1p PT, I’ll have a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting. But his parents have created an AI version of their son for a powerful message on gun violence. Plus TX Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.
Today 🖤
🏛️ 50 voices—judges, journalists, advocates, and the formerly incarcerated—rethink the justice system in DC.
From juvenile reform to eviction solutions, the focus: centering community in our courts and coverage.
Transparency. Innovation. Equity.
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📺 Watch here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/business-of-disaster/
💡Beyond the money, "The Business of Disaster" showed how prolonged recovery wore people down. Stress. Anxiety. Depression. For many, the aftermath was worse than the storm. But the film also offers lessons about oversight, equity & what must change before the next disaster.
📄🌀In New York and New Jersey, lower-income & minority communities often waited the longest. Confusing policies, endless paperwork & unqualified caseworkers from high-priced consulting firms delayed help—leaving families displaced for years.
🏚️ These doctored reports led to flood insurance underpayments. Survivors were told their damage was pre-existing or unrelated. Many felt ignored, denied, or even blamed for their own devastation.
🔍🚨 Engineering firms hired by insurers were caught fraudulently altering damage reports—ignoring photo and physical evidence. This was also confirmed by Congressional oversight and audits found flaws in claims processing.
In college, I worked w/ PBS Frontline for a documentary where I interviewed families whose homes were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy. "Business of Disaster" uncovered how insurance companies profited $400 million—while survivors were left fighting to rebuild. 🧵Insight for STL
Recovery in STL after the May 16 has me reflecting on a past disaster I covered. The silences after storms tell their own story...
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✨Give me 4 minutes, I’ll give you 4 books! 📚
Now on all social media @ByTiamoyo
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📸 Seen some great coverage this week in St. Louis. The role that media and narratives play is powerful, influential and essential. Here are just a few reminders.
Also please take care of yourselves. This is hard, necessary work!
The Shelley House in St. Louis was at the center of Shelley v. Kraemer, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that struck down enforcement of racially restrictive housing covenants.
Path of the tornado in St. Louis followed the lines of race and power the ruling challenged at its core.
The house next door had its roof blown off, but the Shelley House still stands on Labadie in St. Louis after the May 16 tornado.
The national landmark is central to a pivotal civil rights case that challenged racial housing discrimination and reshaped U.S. housing law.
Glad this story keeps traveling.
A front-page in Texas Metro News. A TV sit-down with KSDK. On air with St. Louis Public Radio. Grateful this piece on pretrial monitoring is sparking real conversations—in & beyond Missouri.
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#GPSmonitoring #InvestigativeReporting #PublicSafety #JusticeReform
Beyond The New York Times, this investigation thus far has run in:
📌 The Missouri Independent
🎙️ St. Louis Public Radio
📰 St. Louis Magazine
📍 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It’s been incredible to see a story rooted in truth & accountability resonate across outlets committed to public service journalism.
What I found: a system meant to reform pretrial detention, but instead deepened punishment and instability.
Missouri is the lens — but the pattern is national.
Read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
#CriminalJustice #Surveillance #ElectronicMonitoring #InvestigativeJournalism
I interviewed people directly impacted, analyzed years of contract data, tracked budget expansions, reviewed court records and followed the money behind a tool that now shapes hundreds of lives.
And yet, there's little regulation, public tracking, or debate about how it's used, or misused.
📰 My first investigation for The New York Times is out.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Over the past year, I traced the quiet rise of ankle monitoring in Missouri’s pretrial system — a shift packaged as reform.
I investigated how surveillance replaced bail—and at what cost.
For more from Taylor Tiamoyo Harris: @bytiamoyo.bsky.social
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"Proponents say the devices have helped address inequities in the criminal justice system. But many defendants have experienced unintended consequences."
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✍️ @bytiamoyo.bsky.social: The devices have subjected some defendants to more scrutiny than those individuals would have otherwise faced. (via @nytimes.com Local Investigations Fellowship) www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
