Paige Pfleger
Criminal Justice Reporter at WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN)
Criminal justice reporter @WPLN • Investigating guns + juvenile justice with @ProPublica's Local Reporting Network • Tell me a secret: [email protected]
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4 days ago |
propublica.org | Paige Pfleger |Anjeanette Damon |Mollie Simon |Dana Brozost-Kelleher
This article was produced by WPLN/Nashville Public Radio, a 2023 ProPublica Local Reporting Network partner. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Richard L. Bean, the longtime superintendent of the East Tennessee juvenile detention center that bears his name, abruptly announced Friday that he will be stepping down. His decision to retire came the day after the Knox County mayor said he had lost confidence in Bean’s leadership.
Chatt Prep agrees to pay $100,000 to family of 11-year-old student arrested under school threats law
1 week ago |
timesfreepress.com | Aliyya Swaby |Paige Pfleger
A Chattanooga public charter school has agreed to pay the family of an 11-year-old boy $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming that it wrongfully reported the student to police for an alleged threat of mass violence. The incident happened at the beginning of the school year when Junior, who is autistic, overheard two students talking. (We are using a nickname to protect his privacy.) As Junior later described it, one asked if the other was going to shoot up the school tomorrow.
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1 week ago |
propublica.org | Aliyya Swaby |Paige Pfleger |Jennifer Smith Richards |Jodi S. Cohen
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. A Chattanooga, Tennessee, public charter school has agreed to pay the family of an 11-year-old boy $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming that it wrongfully reported the student to police for an alleged threat of mass violence.
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2 weeks ago |
wpln.org | Paige Pfleger
The state of Tennessee executed Oscar Franklin Smith Thursday morning. It was the first lethal injection since 2019, and comes on the heels of a third-party investigation into the state’s protocol that found failures in testing the drugs used during executions. Smith was convicted of killing his wife Judith Smith and her two sons, Jason and Chad Burnett, in 1989.
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2 weeks ago |
lpm.org | Paige Pfleger |Catherine Sweeney
On Thursday, Tennessee plans to carry out its first execution since 2019 by means of lethal injection. It’s the fourth scheduled execution date since 2020 for Oscar Smith, who was convicted of killing his estranged wife Judith Smith and her two sons Jason Burnett and Chad Burnett in 1989.
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RT @AliyyaSwaby: Many news reports have claimed Tennessee is fixing its school threats law, which has resulted in felony charges for rumors…
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