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Oct 22, 2024 · GET AZCIR UPDATES. About AZCIR. The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is the state’s only independent, nonpartisan and collaborative nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide, data-driven investigative reporting. AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through ...
Welcome to AZCIR - Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
We create interactive graphics and maps for you to explore our stories, including searchable databases. Second, we are the only nonprofit investigative newsroom in Arizona, and we are dedicated to independent reporting that holds those in power to account. AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and ...
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About AZCIR. The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is the state’s only independent, nonpartisan and collaborative nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide, data-driven investigative reporting. AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism.
Did Arizona election officials register nearly 100,000 non-citizens …
Sep 25, 2024 · No. Arizona election officials recently discovered a data-coding issue that mistakenly classified nearly 98,000 voters as having furnished proof of citizenship when it was unclear whether they’d actually done so. No evidence suggests these voters are non-citizens.
ELECTIONS - Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
Election officials didn’t count 27,327 ballots cast by Arizona voters in the November election, rejecting more than twice the 10,457 votes that flipped the state for President-elect Joe Biden in what was the closest raw vote margin of any state in the nation. The uncounted votes, which are legally rejected by officials for reasons such….
Crisis in mental health care: A place that should know better
Oct 19, 2021 · Arnold v. Sarn, a class action lawsuit that called for services for people with serious mental illness regardless of cost, ended in 2014 with a settlement agreement that largely encouraged the system to try its best while softening requirements and accountability. Now Charles “Chick” Arnold, the lead plaintiff, says the agreement should have been more aggressive.
HEALTH - Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
The embattled state agency at the center of Arizona’s ongoing behavioral health crisis knew its proposed billing reforms could trigger a surge in homelessness nearly a year before implementing the changes, yet failed to prepare accordingly. Though AHCCCS claims it worked to connect victims with ‘reputable’ housing, it arranged for just ...
Coronavirus - Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is the state’s only independent, nonpartisan and collaborative nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide, data-driven investigative reporting.
How AZCIR identified Arizona’s ‘constitutional sheriffs’
Oct 20, 2022 · To that end, AZCIR used additional criteria beyond group affiliation to define which sheriffs are part of the extremist “constitutional sheriff” movement. The movement is built around a radical ideology that the sheriff’s power within his or her county is superseded by no state or federal government entity but is guided by the sheriff’s ...
Executive Director and Editor - Arizona Center for Investigative …
Brandon Quester is the co-founder, executive director and editor of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. In a short time and with limited resources, he built AZCIR into an award-winning newsroom, becoming a regional hub for original and collaborative accountability journalism that is best known for its deep reporting on important public policy issues in Arizona and the Southwest.