Katie Leslie

Investigative Producer at WRC-TV (Washington, DC)

Investigative producer @nbc4iteam Former Hill reporter @dallasnews & @ajc govt watchdog reporter. (Currently on leave.) RTs = FYIs only

Articles

Indultos por cannabis y combatir el racismo: Wes Moore discute sus prioridades

1 week ago | telemundowashingtondc.com | Shawn Yancy |Katie Leslie

El gobernador de Maryland, Wes Moore, anunció el jueves que indultará miles de casos de posesión de cannabis en el estado. Moore está otorgando cerca de 7,000 nuevos indultos por delitos menores relacionados con el cannabis. El año pasado, firmó una orden de clemencia que indultó a 175,000 personas cuyos cargos por cannabis, según él, representaban una barrera injusta para el empleo. Noticias Noreste 24/7 en Telemundo 44.
Maryland Gov. Moore issues cannabis pardons, announces homeownership program

1 week ago | nbcwashington.com | Shawn Yancy |Katie Leslie

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will pardon thousands of cases of cannabis possession in the state, he announced Thursday. The governor made the announcement at a Juneteenth event and also announced a new program to increase race-based equity. In an interview with News4 earlier this week, Moore called these initiatives part of the "work of repair" he said is necessary to address ways communities of color have suffered from the systemic impacts of racism.
Firefighter turns 2-time battle with cancer into call for change

2 weeks ago | nbcwashington.com | Katie Leslie |Steve Jones |Jeff Piper |Derrick Cheston

By the time Amy Dant had been promoted to lieutenant in the Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, the firefighter paramedic had been diagnosed with cancer twice. With no history of cancer in her family, she said she first thought she was terribly unfortunate after being diagnosed with cervical cancer at 27 years old, followed by thyroid cancer nearly a decade later. Now, she told the News4 I-Team, she believes it was caused by something else: toxic exposures she endured on the job.
How much will the DC military parade cost? Here's a tally

2 weeks ago | nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Katie Leslie

As the Army rolls tanks, flies planes, and marches soldiers into Washington this week, it's your money paying for almost all of it. According to the Army, the parade and festivities the weekend of June 14 will cost taxpayers up to $45 million. President Donald Trump told "Meet the Press" last month the cost is "Peanuts compared to the value of doing it."But what will $45 million pay for - and how does it compare to the cuts the administration is making?
Firefighters who developed cancer on the job say process for coverage too difficult

4 weeks ago | nbcwashington.com | Katie Leslie |Steve Jones |Derrick Cheston |Carlos Olazagasti

Research shows firefighters are at increased risk for developing cancer due to toxic exposures on the job, but while all 50 states and the District have created laws to provide benefits for firefighters with certain cancers, the News4 I-Team found many say the process in getting that help is fraught and the list of covered cancers is too narrow.
Maryland crab watermen hope higher tariffs will aid their struggling industry

1 month ago | nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Katie Leslie |Steve Jones

Jack Brooks' family has been in the Maryland blue crab business on the Eastern Shore since 1890, running what they say is the oldest working crab-processing plant in the world. But even as he hands off the business to his son, Brooks said he isn't sure how much longer they can hang on. "There may be one or two survivors, but I don't think this will be one of them," Brooks said of the crab industry near his plant in Cambridge, Maryland. "One hundred and thirty-five years...
Rumors of ICE on playground in Forest Hills circulate after unrelated MPD arrest alarms residents

1 month ago | nbcwashington.com | Maggie More |Katie Leslie

A routine law enforcement operation in D.C.'s Forest Hills neighborhood on Wednesday sparked rumors that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers had detained nannies on a nearby playground in front of children. The rumors circulated widely and quickly on D.C.-area listservs on Wednesday, putting residents on edge after ICE officers visited at least nine District restaurants on Tuesday asking for employment verification.
Tracking Trump's impact in his first 100 days

1 month ago | nbcwashington.com | Katie Leslie |Jeff Piper

The tidal wave of President Donald Trump's executive orders ripped through the federal government within hours of his inauguration. He established the Department of Government Efficiency, took aim at federal workers and protections for the transgender community, and pardoned Americans convicted of attacking the U.S. Capitol on his behalf. As Trump reaches 100 days in office this week the impact of his second term is already profound.
DC US attorney takes on licensed pot shop, defends record ahead of confirmation

2 months ago | nbcwashington.com | Ted Oberg |Katie Leslie

President Donald Trump's pick to become the next U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, is in the midst of a contentious U.S. Senate confirmation process. Martin, who has served as interim U.S. attorney since Trump took office, faces questions about his truthfulness, his representation of Jan. 6 defendants as a private defense attorney and comments he made supporting a Nazi sympathizer.
Abrego Garcia's removal raises questions on a police database's lasting effects

2 months ago | nbcwashington.com | Katie Leslie |Jeff Piper

Speaking to NBC Washington in 2020, an undocumented worker named Kilmar Abrego Garcia described his worst fear after an arrest led to him being labeled a gang member. "All my hopes were gone," he told News4 through an interpreter.