Crime – Reporting Public Policy

Reporting Public Policy

A Reporting Project of the Kent State University School of Media and Journalism

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Mikala Farmer December 12, 2023 Fraternal Order of Police, Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality, Ohio House, ohio senate, police, Police Cadet, Police Officer PTSD, Police Shortage, Policing Age, ptsd, Roegner, SB53

To Counteract Shortages, Ohio May Allow 18-Year-Olds to Join the Police Force

A bill that passed in May in the Ohio senate seeks to lower the age of police officers from 21

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Troy Pierson December 15, 2022December 20, 2022 Addiction, COVID-19, Drug Court, Fentanyl, HOPE, Judge Doherty, Portage County, Portage County Mental Health and Recovery Board

HOPE drug court helps those struggling with addiction in Portage County

As the opioid epidemic continues to take lives in Portage County amid the COVID-19 pandemic, drug courts such as the

City of Kent Crime Fall 2022 Stories Ohio

Raygene English September 8, 2022December 20, 2022

One man pleads guilty, in the rape of a Kent State student back in 2007

On September 22nd, 2007, a Kent State was raped at her apartment in Kent, there has finally been a

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Samantha Wright November 29, 2021December 7, 2021

The Knowledge of Stark County Coroner

Leading cause of deathInfogram Harry Campbell, Stark County chief investigator for the Stark County Coroners office. He started in the

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Wyatt Loy September 13, 2021August 9, 2022 george brinkman jr., Kent State University, north royalton, taylor pifer

Four years later, conviction and death sentence vacated in slaying of Kent State student and family

George Brinkman Jr. will face a retrial in Cuyahoga County after the Ohio Supreme Court upholds his appeal Wyatt Loy