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Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county.
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Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county.
Pasco’s sheriff uses grades and abuse histories to label schoolchildren potential criminals. The kids and their parents don’t know.
Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco built a controversial approach to policing. He also built a wide circle of powerful friends who don’t question his tactics.
At Gopher Resource in Tampa, workers recycle 50,000 used car batteries a day. Their safety equipment doesn’t always protect them, an 18-month Tampa Bay Times investigation found.
Hundreds of workers are exposed to poisons inside Florida’s only lead factory
At Gopher Resource in Tampa, workers recycle 50,000 used car batteries a day. Their safety equipment doesn’t always protect them, an 18-month Tampa Bay Times investigation found.
OSHA inspectors haven’t been inside Gopher Resource in five years, even as mechanical breakdowns plagued the Tampa plant and made conditions worse for workers.
Federal regulators have been missing in action at Florida’s only lead factory
OSHA inspectors haven’t been inside Gopher Resource in five years, even as mechanical breakdowns plagued the Tampa plant and made conditions worse for workers.
From its headquarters in Boca Raton, GardaWorld has put unsafe trucks on the road, and its workers and unsuspecting motorists have suffered the consequences.
This major armored truck company took dangerous shortcuts. Mayhem followed.
From its headquarters in Boca Raton, GardaWorld has put unsafe trucks on the road, and its workers and unsuspecting motorists have suffered the consequences.
Big banks entrusted money to GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.
Federal agency knew Garda was “really bad” at safety. It took little action.
He was in Tampa. His family was in Afghanistan. Could he get them home?
Sep. 9• Nation & World
Ajmal, left, and his mother paint trim at the family’s new home on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Ajmal was born in Afghanistan and was a teenager when the U.S. invaded in 2001. By the end of his teens, he'd started working as an interpreter for U.S. forces; in 2009, he came to the U.S. on a special visa for interpreters, joined the Army, and became a citizen. He and his mother were working to prepare for the arrival of his wife and two daughters from Afghanistan.
Twelve hours in a Florida COVID-19 ICU
Sep. 2• Health
Medical workers in the Intensive Care Unit try to stabilize a patient who has been battling the virus. From mid-July through August, 43 people died of COVID-19 at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater. More than 75 percent of them were unvaccinated.
A tribute to the Floridians taken by the coronavirus
Apr. 10, 2020• Health
Who wants to be a cop?
Jul. 12• Investigations & Narratives
Brittany Moody takes a defensive tactics final exam.
How did coronavirus overwhelm this nursing home so quickly?
Dec. 3, 2020• Long Reads
An outbreak. Evacuations. Forty families shattered.
An energy efficiency finance program is trapping Florida homeowners in debt
Sep. 10, 2020• Investigations
Solar panels on Ruskin homes purchased with PACE loans.
How Scientology doubled its downtown Clearwater footprint in 3 years
Oct. 20, 2019• Investigations
Scientology’s international spiritual headquarters in downtown Clearwater is anchored by the Flag Building, on left. An elevated walkway connects the building to the Fort Harrison Hotel, the church’s first purchase in the city in 1975.
You’re trapped. This Florida hospital is cashing in.
Sep. 18, 2019• Investigations
Michael Jenkins spent seven days at North Tampa Behavioral Health last July. Since then, he says his three children have been afraid he’ll leave and not come home.

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  1. Tampa announces reforms to Crime-Free housing program
    Sep. 18• Investigations
    Tampa Mayor Jane Castor on Saturday announced reforms to a Tampa Police Department program that reported the arrest of tenants to landlords and encouraged them to evict. It comes after a Tampa Bay Times investigation revealed that entire families lost their homes even in cases when charges were dropped.
    After defending the program, Mayor Jane Castor agrees to limit when landlords are notified of tenant arrests.
  2. Civil rights groups call for halt to Tampa police Crime-Free housing program
    Sep. 17• Investigations
    A sign at Meridian Apartments on N 50th Street in Tampa advertises its participation in Tampa's Crime-Free Multi Housing program. It was one of about 100 apartment complexes enrolled in the Tampa Police Department program.
    The NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida are among groups asking Tampa Mayor Jane Castor to end the anti-crime initiative they say unfairly puts Black renters at risk of eviction.
  5. Tampa police called for hundreds to be evicted. Entire families lost their homes.
    Sep. 15• Investigations
    Officers sent notices to landlords detailing arrests and encounters with their tenants that put families at risk of eviction even when charges were later dropped.
  6. Justice Department to review new Pasco intelligence effort
    Sep. 10• Investigations
    Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco told the Justice Department that his agency was "confused" by a federal probe into its new intelligence effort.
    The federal agency expressed concerns with the program in an Aug. 6 letter to Sheriff Chris Nocco.
  7. Beatings, buried videos a pattern at Lousiana State Police, investigation shows
    Sep. 9• Crime
    In this March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video obtained by The Associated Press, Louisiana State Trooper Jacob Brown slams motorist DeShawn Washington against the hood of a police cruiser during a traffic stop in Ouachita Parish, La., after troopers found marijuana in the trunk of Washington's car. (Louisiana State Police via AP)
    An AP review of internal investigative records show at least a dozen cases of Louisiana troopers beating suspects.
  8. Activists demand changes to Pasco school data program
    Aug. 18• News
    Members of the PASCO Coalition rallied outside the Pasco School Board meeting on Tuesday, demanding the district end its practice of sharing student data with the Sheriff's Office.
    A coalition wants the school district to stop giving student data to the Sheriff’s Office when not required by law.
  9. Pasco Sheriff’s Office letter targets residents for ‘increased accountability’
    Jul. 24• Investigations
    A letter from the Pasco Sheriff's Office tells recipients they will be facing enhanced police scrutiny under Sheriff Chris Nocco's controversial intelligence program.
    Critics of the agency’s intelligence programs called the letter ‘patronizing’ and ‘offensive,’ and raised continued concerns about civil rights
  10. Tampa Bay Times journalists honored in Florida state news competition
    Jul. 15• Breaking News
    This photo of Carter Verhaeghe taken in 2020 by Times photographer Dirk Shadd won first place in sports photography at the Florida Society of News Editors competition.
    FSNE awards prizes for the state’s best journalism. The Tampa Bay Times collects 23 awards, including top honors in eight categories.
  11. Federal lawmakers call for penalties for Tampa lead factory
    Jul. 10• Investigations
    Federal lawmakers say Gopher Resource should face penalties in the wake of a report that found toxic gasses reached life-threatening levels and contaminated dust covered the plant’s floor.
    Regulators, prompted by a Tampa Bay Times investigation, found that Gopher Resource ran afoul of environmental standards
  12. Tampa lead factory ran afoul of environmental standards, report finds
    Jul. 1• Investigations
    County regulators identified a host of problems at Gopher Resource in Tampa, including hazardous-liquid leaks and life-threatening levels of carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide.
    The inquiry was spurred by a Tampa Bay Times investigation into hazardous conditions at the plant.
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