Listen to our California Report Magazine episode about one of the state’s biggest police corruption scandals in Frenso, California and read the article by Andrew Beale and IRP.
The California Corruption Project is an ongoing effort focusing initially on law enforcement corruption in the Central Valley and beyond. The project is a collaboration between the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and KQED. Students assist in the reporting and writing of stories, working alongside award-winning reporter Robert Lewis. The IRP offers a not-for-credit workshop to help students learn to use public records as the basis for investigative stories. The weekly workshop is led by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Thomas Peele.
Stories related to this investigation have been published in the Mercury News, KQED, and The California Report.