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2021 Pulitzer Prize winner

Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county.
Targeted
Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county.
The kids and their parents don’t know.
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 data-driven approach to policing. He also built a wide circle of powerful friends who don’t question his tactics.
The man behind the machine
Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco built a controversial data-driven 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.
An outbreak. Evacuations. Forty families shattered.
How did coronavirus overwhelm this nursing home so quickly?
An outbreak. Evacuations. Forty families shattered.
Solar panels on Ruskin homes purchased with PACE loans.
An energy efficiency finance program is trapping Florida homeowners in debt
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.
How Scientology doubled its downtown Clearwater footprint in 3 years
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.
You’re trapped. This Florida hospital is cashing in.
Leslie Lugo’s family visits her grave in September.
Despite warnings, All Children’s kept operating. Babies died.

LATEST

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. Tampa lead factory gets credit downgrade
    Jun. 29• Investigations
    Lead dust fills a section of Gopher Resource's Tampa plant. Late this month, Moody's Investors Service downgraded the company's credit rating.
    An ongoing federal probe, prompted by a Tampa Bay Times investigation, was a key factor in the decision, the credit-rating agency said.
  8. Tampa teens reported a teacher’s sexual comments. Then a student’s life was upended.
    Jun. 27• Investigations
    Madisyn Slater on a June day at Julian B Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa.
    Hillsborough County schools have a troubled history when it comes to protecting students from sexual misconduct.
  9. Tampa Bay Times stands alone in Local Reporting category of the Pulitzers
    Jun. 12• Investigations
    Tampa Bay Times reporter Kathleen McGrory, center, speaks at Poynter on Friday to current and former Times staffers at a celebration of the Pulitzer Prize she won with reporting partner Neil Bedi.
    No newsroom in America has won the category more times since it was introduced 15 years ago.
  10. Lucky 13: Tampa Bay Times wins Pulitzer Prize
    Jun. 12• Investigations
    Tampa Bay Times reporter Kathleen McGrory, center, speaks at Poynter on Friday to current and former Times staffers at a celebration of the Pulitzer Prize she won with reporting partner Neil Bedi.
    11 Images | View Slideshow
    Tampa Bay Times journalists won the Pulitzer Prize in the Local Reporting category on Friday.
  11. Tampa Bay Times reporters win the newsroom’s 13th Pulitzer Prize
    Jun. 11• Investigations
    Paul Tash, Chairman and CEO of the Times Publishing Company, left, Tampa Bay Times Executive Editor Mark Katches, reporters Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi, and former Deputy Editor of Investigations Adam Playford watch as McGrory and Bedi are announced as the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting on Friday, June 11, 2021, for their groundbreaking series about a Pasco County law enforcement initiative that harassed local residents. This is the 13th Pulitzer Prize awarded to the Times.
    An examination of a Pasco law enforcement initiative sparked outrage and impact.
  12. Former worker sues Tampa lead smelter over son’s exposure
    Jun. 2• Investigations
    Civil rights and personal injury attorney Benjamin Crump (center) and co-counselors announce the filing of a lawsuit against Gopher Resource on behalf of Colin Brown (in headphones). Colin's parents Ko Brown (third from right) and Tomika Brown (second from right) are suing the lead factory, alleging that dust from the plant poisoned their son. Colin's blood-lead levels only subsided after his father, a former factory worker, left the plant. The Wednesday press conference in Tampa was held outside of the George E. Edgecomb Courthouse.
    The worker alleges dusty conditions at Gopher Resource, Florida’s only lead factory, resulted in his son’s lead exposure.

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Kathleen McGrory, Deputy Editor for Investigations

Corey G. Johnson, Investigative Reporter

Rebecca Woolington, Investigative Reporter

Bethany Barnes, Investigative Reporter

Eli Murray, Data Reporter

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