Searchlight New Mexico News

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“Searchlight new mexico key program accomplishments in 2019 sustained news reporting by searchlight new mexico contributed to policy changes that made 2019 the "year of the child" in new mexico. The 2019 legislature created an early-childhood department. The state's top guardian of children enacted rules to stop over-medicating children. The state attorney general sued the air force over chemical plumes originating on new mexico bases. Lawmakers sought to tighten gun laws. Authorities launched investigations that closed one of the largest foster care agencies, whose mismanagement exposed children to abuse. Each action traced back directly to a searchlight expos. A major purpose of searchlight new mexico is to support investigative news coverage aimed at promoting a healthy, just new mexico. Searchlight new mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative reporting and innovative data journalism. In a landscape of shrinking media resources, our mission is to focus high-impact journalism on topics of local, regional and national interest in order to allow the public to see into the remote recesses of government and to expose abuses of power. We believe great reporting empowers people to demand honest, effective public policy and to seek appropriate remedies. These are some of our stories that packed a punch: - the state attorney general filed a federal lawsuit to protect new mexicans after a searchlight investigation found that poisonous chemicals from cannon air force base had reached the food chain through a clovis dairy. - a state legislator called for an investigation after our report showed how students can enter the classroom-to-jail pipeline when schools all too often punish kids with learning disabilities and attention disorders. - policymakers scrambled to explain after our investigation that the public regulatory commission, the body with the power to tackle climate change, threatens to undermine the state's grand plan for renewable energy because of dysfunction and lack of expertise. - the state's top guardian of children, responding to searchlight revelations about 20 years of failure, began implementing a system to control prescriptions given children in state custody. - new mexicans near the border were shocked by a searchlight investigation making it concrete how trump's tough border enforcement victimizes the innocent. The story documented how anti-immigrant sentiment discourages victims of crime from seeking visa protection intended to help them. - human-rights lawyers found sound legal arguments in the searchlight story detailing how dreams of an economic windfall lead new mexico towns to profit from the migrant crisis by selling jail space to federal immigration authorities. - readers around new mexico and the southwest woke up to danger in their midst when an investigative story found this: the oil boom in southeastern new mexico has overtaxed rural roads, turning them from lightly used roads into corridors of death. Investigative reporting by searchlight new mexico directly benefited the 400,000 children of new mexico. In addition, readers of those stories included voters, policy makers and lawmakers who create programs to help children and families. The deliverables were quantifiable. Searchlight served 500,000 media consumers statewide. They were the grassroots that drove policy. In 2019, searchlight published 70 stories, conducted 3,400 interviews and held seven public-engagement events. We came to see that new mexico benefits when the rest of the country is smarter about our state, which is an indicator for the nation on several major issues. Searchlight met the challenge by forging partnerships with the guardian, high country news, the trace, propublica, slate, german public tv and mega, a spanish-speaking radio network based in juarez, mexico. We began organizing a network of 25 radio stations in new mexico. Co-publishing with all of those media added impact in building mo”

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