Sammy Sussman

1 month 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.