Steve Eckert
KARE 11
Minnesota, United States
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KARE 11 Investigates: Juvenile lockups routinely order kids into solitary confinement
Controversial practice puts youths' mental health and the public’s safety at risk, experts say; for one teen who got out: ‘I didn’t know right from wrong’ → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Minnesota BCA completes investigation of jail medical neglect death
Nearly four years after Hardel Sherrell’s death in Beltrami County Jail, a state criminal investigation has been presented to prosecutors. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: High-pressure sales tactics to sell high-priced beds
A local senior says Easy Rest used “predatory sales practices” in a pitch that lasted six hours – then refused to let her return a $4,800 bed she didn’t want. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Message from the grave leads family to fulfill loved one’s final wish
Bruce Lundmark's note saying “If I die, sue the (expletive) out of the Beltrami jail" has prompted his family to sue the jail as well as MEND correctional care. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Minnesota’s justice system has failed kids and the public
More than 150 teens charged with violent crimes are re-offenders, KARE 11 found, despite a system that is supposed to protect the public and help kids. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Despite red flags, child protection closed the case of 6-year-old weeks before his murder
Eli Hart’s social worker and court guardian had clear concerns about the boy’s care under his mother, Julissa Thayer, but agreed to close the case anyway. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: State senate takes up effort to eliminate gap cases
Citing a public safety crisis, state lawmakers pledge more reforms to close gaps exposed in a KARE 11 investigation that revealed rapes, murders and assaults. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Closing a loophole that allows mentally incompetent defendants to buy guns
Reform plan to close a legal gap KARE 11 exposed that allowed the accused Buffalo Allina clinic mass shooter to legally buy a gun despite prior violent threats. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: $1.1 million settlement in police car overbilling lawsuit
A settlement is reached in a whistleblower lawsuit claiming MN failed to recover all the money owed after multi-year scheme to overcharge on police squad cars. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Illegal shackling of pregnant inmate prompts policy changes
The same day a KARE 11 investigation revealed a woman was illegally shackled while in labor, Hennepin County rushed to rewrite its policy → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Nurses union calls on jails to cut ties with controversial care provider
Rally protests lack of action taken against doctor at center of a KARE 11 Investigation into needless inmate deaths; MNA says counties should cut ties with him → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: An accused sexual predator, a decade of safety net failures
Part 5 – “The Gap: Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect” – Too mentally ill to be tried for rape, DHS and the courts said he’s safe to live on the streets → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Accused sexual predator arrested after KARE 11 report
Officials lost track of a severely mentally ill man charged in two sex assaults; he was arrested two hours after KARE 11 reported finding him on the streets. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Lawmakers demand answers after massive failures led to a murder
GOP members ‘deeply troubled’ by KARE 11's investigation about a dangerous and mentally ill man who walked free and untreated before shooting an innocent bus rider. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Mentally Ill, known to be dangerous, discharged anyway
Part 2 of “The Gap: failure to treat, failure to protect” reveals dangerous holes in Minnesota’s mental health system cost Abigail Simpson her life. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Do expensive air purifiers really kill COVID?
Minnesota schools, businesses and governments spent millions on technology that claims to fight COVID – but some experts say there’s no proof it works. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Minnesota assisted living licensing begins
New consumer protections begin as Minnesota becomes the last state in the country to license Assisted Living and Memory Care facilities. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Gene therapy drug produces a miracle for Maddy
Almost two, Maddy Smith couldn't walk due to a rare genetic condition. Two years later she is running, thanks to a promising but expensive gene therapy. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: IRS facing worst tax return backlog in history
Records show only 3 out of 100 people who called the main IRS help line reached a real person. → Read More
KARE 11 Investigates: Race increasingly listed as 'unknown' in MPD Use of Force reports
A KARE 11 Investigation reveals skyrocketing incidents where MPD claims not to know the race of people they use force against – even when it appears obvious. → Read More