Sammy Sussman
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2 months ago |
newlinesmag.com | Sammy Sussman
On Oct. 9, 2023, a series of short statements about Israeli operations in the West Bank were posted alongside updates on airstrikes in Gaza, on a little-known page on the Israeli army spokesperson’s website called the “War Diary.” The spokesperson’s office makes the War Diary available in English, Arabic, Spanish, French and Hebrew. But information about operations in the West Bank appeared only in Hebrew.
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Dec 12, 2024 |
muckrock.com | Sammy Sussman
Prisons in New York state have used an opaque, vaguely defined process to ban hundreds of books and other texts, according to documents MuckRock obtained through open records requests. Between February and July last year, about 1,800 books, magazines and newspapers were mailed to people incarcerated in New York’s 44 prisons. The reviewing committees there blocked portions of more than 300 texts, including newspaper articles, academic texts and legal publications.
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Oct 31, 2024 |
nysfocus.com | Sammy Sussman |Chris Gelardi
The state doesn’t publicize officer employment histories, making it impossible to track so-called wandering officers.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
thedailystar.com | Sammy Sussman |Sammy Sussman Focus
In January 2023, the mayor of the village of Chester, in Orange County, received an anonymous letter from a village police officer about the police chief. The letter said that, starting in 2020, Chief Timothy McGuire, then a sergeant in the department, repeatedly met a woman he was in a sexual relationship with at the police station. McGuire would brag about his affair, the letter alleged — and he would recruit his police underlings to help him hide it.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
muckrock.com | Sammy Sussman
This story was co-published with New York Focus and supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Data-Driven Reporting Project. In January 2023, the mayor of the Village of Chester, in Orange County, received an anonymous letter from a village police officer about the police chief. The letter said that, starting in 2020, Chief Timothy McGuire, then a sergeant in the department, repeatedly met a woman he was in a sexual relationship with at the police station.
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Years after the repeal of §50a made police files (theoretically) susceptible to FOIL, we are suing to force prompt disclosure. We've also sued others — my colleague @SanjanaBhambhan sued the Westchester County District Attorney recently — and filed numerous internal appeals.
New: The obstinacy of Erie County Sheriff John Garcia has gotten his agency sued yet again. This time, by The New York Times. The Times requested disciplinary records last August and didn't receive a denial until this year. That and more: https://t.co/TZmvDeYbnB https://t.co/bHSkA1uPHq
New, by me, for @newlinesmag:
NEW: War Diary, a little-known page on the Israeli army spokesperson’s website, provides updates in five languages, but, as @sammysussman reports for @newlinesmag, many of the details are in Hebrew only. https://t.co/RY7VLtyn6i
RT @hxhassan: The Curious Gaps in the Israeli Army’s Updates War Diary, a little-known page on the Israeli army spokesperson’s website, pr…
