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Previously, most rapes could not be prosecuted after the state’s 15-year deadline, even if a DNA match was found.
A 2025 WBUR-ProPublica investigation tracked one woman’s fight for justice after police missed the deadline to prosecute her rapist: https://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-statute-of-limitations-rape?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Massachusetts #SexualAssault #Rape #Law #Crime #Women #DNA
NEW: Following reporting by WBUR and ProPublica, Gov. Maura Healey has pledged to sign a bill into law ensuring that Massachusetts will no longer have one of the strictest rape prosecution deadlines in the country.
#News #Massachusetts #SexualAssault #Rape #Law #Crime #Women #DNA
NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral
"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users."
#News #Google #AI #Journalism #Media #Technology #Tech #Research #LLM #artificialintelligence
NEW - A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SCOTUS #Law #SupremeCourt #Legal #Trump #Data #Research
NEW - “That Guy Is Still Out There”: Alice Sebold, the Wrong Man and Syracuse’s Buried Rape Crisis
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-exoneration-syracuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #AliceSebold #Rape #SexualAssault #Syracuse #Crime #Law
NEW: Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste underground each year — less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahoma’s water wells.
But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/enid-oklahoma-oil-gas-pollution-water-protections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Environment #Pollution #Water #Regulation
NEW: Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty
Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-death-penalty-executions-ron-desantis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Florida #Law #Prison #DeathPenalty #RonDeSantis #CriminalJustice #Legal
NEW: Last year, the Trump DOJ dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in several cities, claiming the reform efforts were “factually unjustified.”
But officers continued to engage in the same abuses, per a new ACLU report.
https://www.propublica.org/article/aclu-trump-police-reform-doj-minneapolis-louisville-phoenix-memphis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The court’s ruling came after a 2025 Verite News and ProPublica investigation examined the reliability of the key forensic evidence used to convict Duncan.
Revisit our original investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-jimmie-duncan-bite-mark-analysis-death-row-junk-science?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
