Government Accountability

Michael Capriglione was elected despite lying about crashing his police cruiser into another police vehicle in 2018, then having video surveillance tape erased.

The PPD plans to ask City Hall for more money for Tasers. The department began buying the stun devices after an officer fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr.

Free Press, WHYY, and Reclaim Philadelphia convened community leaders on the frontline of the gun violence crisis to explore funding what works and defunding what doesn’t.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz joins a growing list of politicians from both parties — almost exclusively men — who are defying the traditional response to controversy.

The Department of Health denied a public records request, citing a decades-old law that it has frequently used to shield the public from scrutinizing its pandemic response.

The bill, which is moving through the Pennsylvania legislature, specifically names HIV and hepatitis B, even though those viruses can’t be transmitted through saliva.

The state Health Department is once again citing a decades-old law that it has used numerous times to prevent greater public scrutiny of its coronavirus pandemic response.

The expiration of state benefits for many and the new federal stimulus law is creating fresh confusion and potential gaps in benefits for people desperate for help.

The bill has just four co-sponsors, a reflection of how difficult it is to garner support in Harrisburg for measures that pare back government perks.

Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub said Shore had been working for DoorDash, delivering food during work hours, from October to February.

The activism of hunger striker Jamal Johnson is known nationwide.

They collected $726,877 from taxpayers in per diem payments, in addition to being among the highest paid in the country. House Democrats received the most.

The pandemic has sparked an explosion of public data. But the Murphy administration has blocked information from the public.

Instead, the administration will focus on tighter partnerships and improved information-sharing with private-sector companies.

"Whatever you can do, Frances, it would be — it's a great thing," Trump said to Georgia Secretary of State chief investigator Frances Watson.