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Explore data on abuse and unexplained injuries at Calif. developmental centers
Five institutions in California house nearly 1,800 patients with developmental disabilities, including those with cerebral palsy, mental retardation and severe autism. This population is at a high risk...
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Search your community for transferred military equipment
More than 17,000 local agencies across the country have taken advantage of the Defense Department’s equipment giveaways. California police accumulated more equipment in 2011 than any other year in the...
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Map: Learn more about 4 unincorporated communities
About 1.8 million Californians – primarily Latinos – live in low-income, unincorporated communities that lack sewers, clean drinking water, sidewalks, streetlights or gutters – infrastructure known to...
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Developmental center police officers and their pay
Police officers at the Office of Protective Services, the in-house force at California's five board-and-care institutions, are among the state government's most proficient users of overtime. The data...
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The Rainmakers: California's top political donors, 2001-2011
Lavishing their largesse to legislators and political committees alike, the largest donors to California politics spent $1.25 billion from 2001 through 2011.
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Find which schools are waiting on state money for repairs
California has funded less than half of an $800 million program intended to repair shoddy school facilities. The Emergency Repair Program, which was born out of a landmark class-action lawsuit that...
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Interactive: Assessing risks among California's prisoners
Amid another debate over California’s three strikes law, never-before-released inmate profiles show a high number of substance abusers but much fewer prisoners with high-risk “criminal thinking” scores.
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Timeline: How the three strikes law changed California
The state’s crackdown on habitual criminals was fueled by a Fresno father whose daughter had been murdered.
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Map: Price of proximity
Dozens of community college districts in California – no more than 20 miles apart – spend millions on similar administrative costs. Find out how much money is being spent in our interactive.
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State attorneys general investigating for-profit colleges
California's attorney general has joined the U.S. Department of Justice and several other states in a whistleblower lawsuit against for-profit educational firm Education Management Corp. See which...
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