From Britney Spears to Wendy Williams, financial guardianships and conservatorships have entered the limelight as legal tools with the potential for abuse. These high-profile cases have led to growing ...

The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Amia Edwards lives here because she wants to make a difference. But in this majority-Black city, long starved for funding by the state’s mostly white Legislature, that’s proved a ...

The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. WALLACE, N.C. — On nice days, Elsie Herring can sink back into her ...

Rosalinda Morales and Danny Luna, board members of the neighborhood council in Los Angeles' Echo Park, stand by equipment being used to plug orphaned oil wells at an apartment construction site.

The American Legislative Exchange Council became the nation’s best-known “model”-bill factory over its four decades by providing more than fill-in-the-blank legislation. This story also appeared in ...

What happens if you don’t have the money to pay your state income tax bill? As the Center for Public Integrity has investigated the impact of state taxes on economic inequality, we kept hearing how ...

November 23, 2015, 11:00 a.m.: This story has been updated. In November 2014, Arkansas voters approved a ballot measure that, among other reforms, barred the state’s elected officials from accepting ...

A type of law first created after the end of slavery to prohibit Black men from voting prevented more than 4.6 million Americans from participating in the 2022 midterm elections. Forty-eight states ...

HINKLEY, Calif. – Ten days before Christmas 1965, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. station chief Richard Jacobs walked a half-block on a dusty road lined with scraggly creosote shrubs to check out a ...

“In my opinion … IU not only harbors rapists, but also completely disregards, ignores, and fails women.” Indiana University freshman Margaux J. unleashed these fiery words in May 2006 after a campus ...

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