Brady List Investigation
WA prosecutors who withhold evidence rarely face discipline
Legally and ethically, prosecutors are required to turn over evidence — even when it could hurt their case. Those who don’t, however, face few consequences.
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New WA police accountability law can now include past misconduct
The state Criminal Justice Training Commission made the decision Wednesday, resolving a dispute about how far back the new law could reach.
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How Crosscut's Brady List stories impacted WA police accountability
In response to our reporting, some prosecutors flagged more cops as having credibility issues. Others fixed gaps in their systems.
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WA lawmakers want new police decertification law to apply to past misconduct
Legislators say they didn’t mean for past misconduct to be off-limits, but that’s how a state commission has interpreted the new law.
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How public records gave us a window into WA police misconduct
Being home on maternity leave during last year's Black Lives Matter protests got a reporter thinking about how to look deeper into police misdeeds.