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  • 2020 Changes Help Disabled, Blind Voters

    September 29, 2020 |

    KDNK Community Radio |

    Podcast |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    A Colorado system allows voters with disabilities to request an accessible ballot, which enables them to fill out their ballot online using a personal computer or a smart phone. This allows voters to maintain confidentiality in their voting selections rather than needing to have someone assist them in filling out their ballot. Voters can fill out their ballots online, using assistive technologies if necessary, and then print their ballot to either mail to their county clerk or drop off at an official ballot drop box in their county.

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  • Here's How Chicago Police Spent 4 Million Hours Of Anti-Violence Overtime

    September 29, 2020 |

    WBEZ |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    As Chicago touts the latest in a series of anti-violence police units, a look back at the Violence Reduction Initiative launched in 2012 teaches lessons about how a program that claims credit for falling violence still might be termed a failure for its lack of focus and for the collateral damage it inflicts on a suffering community. VRI spent $4 million on police overtime to saturate 20 South and West Side areas, targeting not only illegal gun possession but a host of minor offenses, burdening mostly Black residents with parking fines and frequent police stops, alienating them from their protectors.

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  • In Rio, Mapping Gunshots Can Backfire

    September 29, 2020 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    Crime-tracking mobile apps give millions of Brazilians crowdsourced data on urban violence, alerting people to dangerous places and filling gaps in government data on shootings, robberies, and other risks. But apps such as Fogo Cruzado (“Crossfire”) and Onde Tem Tiroteio (“Where There's a Shooting”) offer statistically crude glimpses of crime, distorted by media and racial biases that one expert blames for myths about the risks people actually face.

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  • California's Project Homekey Turns Hotels into Housing

    September 29, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Long-term efforts to convert vacant hotels into housing for people experiencing homelessness jumped on an accelerated track in California when $312 million in pandemic-relief money paid for 2,389 housing units around the state. Project Homekey, an extension of Project Roomkey's program to put unhoused people temporarily in hotels, is putting a dent in the shortage of permanent housing options in cities like Oakland. Because the pandemic undercut the hotel business, owners are more willing to sell properties.

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  • Mudança de hábito: consumidores contam o que fizeram para reduzir, ou quase zerar, o envio de lixo e carbono para o meio ambiente

    September 28, 2020 |

    UOL |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    A reportagem mostra a história de pessoas que decidiram ter uma vida mais sustentável para preservar o meio ambiente. Um exemplo são as empresárias que possuem um restaurante considerado lixo zero. Além de não usarem embalagens descartáveis no restaurante, fazem compostagem do lixo orgânico.

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  • As Wilderness Areas Attract More People, Volunteer Rangers Hit The Trail

    September 28, 2020 |

    Boise State Public Radio (KBSX) |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Idaho

    About 40 volunteer wilderness stewards of the Idaho Conservation League are helping to educate hikers about how to be good outdoor trekkers like disposing of waste properly and staying on the trail. While these volunteers can’t legally enforce the rules, last year, they have destroyed 109 illegal campfire rings and got rid of 100 pounds of litter. These volunteers programs could be effective as other government initiative budgets are cut and more and more people are exploring nature.

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  • Local farms, small gardens see boost in interest, funding to tackle hunger

    September 28, 2020 |

    New Mexico In Depth |

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    Response Location: United States, Villanueva, New Mexico

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations and government agencies are connecting farmers with people in need by making fruits and vegetables more affordable or even free. For example, Bueno Para Todos, a small farm in New Mexico, has planted new fruit trees alongside a vegetable garden, and allows people to pick what they want and pay how they can, either with money or by helping on the farm. Scaling these efforts can be difficult if communities want to encourage growing more local food.

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  • Health on Wheels: Tricked-Out RVs Deliver Addiction Treatment to Rural Communities

    September 28, 2020 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Sterling, Colorado

    Because access to addiction treatment is difficult in rural communities, a state program in Colorado has allowed for RV's to be turned into mobile clinics, which has proved especially useful during the coronavirus pandemic. Not only do the mobile clinics offer services such as testing, but they also provide internet access for patients who need to connect with a doctor.

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  • Low-key cops and a white shaggy dog: How Marathon County transformed its response to residents in crisis

    September 28, 2020 |

    Wausau Pilot and Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Wausau, Wisconsin

    In Wisconsin, plain-clothes law enforcement officers are teaming up with mental health experts to handle calls related to crisis intervention. The goal of the Marathon County Crisis Assessment Response Team is to reduce unnecessary detentions of people experiencing mental health crises, while also increasing trust with the community. In the two years since the program launched, the "rate of hospitalizing or jailing people in crisis" has dropped in both consecutive years, which has consequently saved the county a great deal of expenses.

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  • Brokering peace on the South Side

    September 28, 2020 |

    NBC News |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Outreach workers with CRED (Create Real Economic Destiny) in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood are paid under a city grant to de-escalate and mediate disputes among the same gangs that some of the workers once belonged to. Able to win the trust of people who distrust the police, CRED's violence prevention workers also provide therapy to trauma victims and job development help, in order to address the underlying causes of violence in a neighborhood where a lack of hope can breed a lack of respect for others' lives. Fatal shootings in Roseland are down by one-third while up elsewhere in Chicago.

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