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Cleveland has spent millions on police cameras. Why are the locations a secret?

By Rachel Dissell & Mark Puente ● Public Safety ● September 28, 2022 September 27, 2022

Cleveland has spent over $7 million on surveillance cameras, but doesn’t share where the cameras are or how they’re used. The city cites citizen safety as a reason for shielding information, but has no policies on use of surveillance technology.

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Cleveland Police hiring practices are ‘alarming’ and ‘disturbing,’ Feds say

By Mark Puente ● Public Safety ● September 22, 2022 September 22, 2022

City leaders want federal oversight to end, but the monitor appointed under a 2015 consent decree says Cleveland police are not compliant in “significant and critical areas.”

Muny Football gets long-awaited budget increase, becomes part of Bibb strategy for Cleveland kids

By Mark Oprea ● Social Equity ● September 15, 2022 September 27, 2022

Cleveland Muny League Football, a Cleveland-sponsored summer sports program serving more than 3,000 kids, has received its first funding increase in decades as Mayor Bibb made the 76-year-old program part of his comprehensive violence prevention strategy.

Federal oversight of police has cost Cleveland millions. What changed?

By Mark Puente & Cid Standifer ● Government ● September 12, 2022 September 12, 2022

Cleveland’s police force remains under federal oversight mandated by a 2015 consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice. Consent decrees force cities to change abusive police tactics. But Cleveland still has work to do.

“Speed tables” are latest effort to slow residential streets

By Owen MacMillan ● Public Safety ● July 12, 2022 July 27, 2022

Starting next month, Cleveland will install 10 speed tables across the city and begin testing them in what officials hope will eventually be a central part of making the city’s streets safer.

How NE Ohio communities are building small transit solutions to solve big issue of sprawl

By Conor Morris ● Transportation ● June 9, 2022 June 15, 2022

In Northeast Ohio, the continuing sprawl of urban and suburban development has placed some major job centers out-of-the-way for many workers.

Stuck in Cleveland: riders struggle to use public transit to get to work

By Conor Morris ● Transportation ● June 9, 2022 June 24, 2022

The recent route redesign of public transit routes did improve some riders’ ability to get to their jobs, but transit advocates like Marvetta Rutherford, who has had to walk an extra 30 minutes after a bus ride to get to work, say more needs to be done.

What do you want to know about criminal courts in Cleveland?

By Rachel Dissell ● Civic Engagement ● June 6, 2022 June 15, 2022

Submit your questions here, and The Marshall Project’s team will scrape records from the court’s public docket to answer them.

Resident complaints against University Circle Police reveal need for external review board as patrol jurisdiction set to expand

By Doug Breehl-Pitorak & Cleveland Documenters ● Government ● May 6, 2022 July 11, 2022

With the jurisdiction of University Circle Police’s jurisdiction poised to expand, longtime residents voiced concern about how the department handles complaints.

Call 988? New mental health hotline faces many hurdles as launch looms. Just ask Ohio.

By Brie Zeltner, Nicole Cortes & Richard Willing ● Government ● May 4, 2022 July 11, 2022

The federal government mandated the creation of a three-digit mental health emergency line, but how it will work remains unclear in Ohio and states across the country.