Miranda S. Spivack, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Miranda S. Spivack

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Washington, DC, United States

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Past:
  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • Reveal
  • ksdk.com
  • USA TODAY
  • Washington Post

Past articles by Miranda:

Public colleges hide donors who seek to influence students. Will COVID-19 make it worse?

The coronavirus may give private donors more say over public colleges' classes and professors, observers worry. Secrecy is the norm across the U.S. → Read More

Before family separations, Trump quietly removed protections for migrant kids

Many of the changes happened over the last 18 months, short-circuiting opportunities for children to get help. → Read More

Bus company to pay legal fees in LA public records case

A non-profit organization will be repaid for legal fees it incurred to defend the public’s right to public records. → Read More

New database expands public access to information on public records

The interactive based on a Reveal series includes newly compiled data from MuckRock, which shows states are adding exemptions to public records laws. → Read More

L.A. transit agency must show if Canadian firm created jobs

Ruling is forcing the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority to give the public detailed information about job creation and wages. → Read More

Rapid response training programs are aiming to document ICE activities

In a small back room at Victory in Praise, a predominantly African American church in the Central Valley city of Stockton, Calif., community organizer Arturo Palato assessed his troops. The gathering included a teacher, a social worker, a salesman and a student — about a dozen in all. A farmworker trims grape vines in a vineyard in Clarksburg, Calif. Faith in the Valley, an interfaith nonprofit… → Read More

Rapid response training programs are aiming to document ICE activities

Community organizers try to convince volunteers they have a crucial role to play when immigration authorities round up their neighbors. → Read More

How states keep accident-prone roads secret

Richard Boltuck did not plan to spend most of his waking hours fighting with public officials. He just wanted the state to install a left-turn traffic light at an accident-prone intersection near his home in Bethesda, Maryland. → Read More

How private contractors are taking over data in the public domain

In dozens of U.S. cities and states, the rights to publish state and local laws don’t belong to the people or the governments. They belong to private contractors. → Read More

Cop camera footage: Public record or police property?

Under what circumstances should footage from police body and dashboard cameras be made public, and how much? → Read More

Local governments hide public records, face few consequences

For more than three decades, Nick Maravell and his family farmed on a 20-acre plot in suburban Maryland, tucked between the Potomac River and megamansions in Potomac, a tony suburb that is home to powerful lobbyists, government contractors and other → Read More

Local governments hide public records, face few consequences

For more than three decades, Nick Maravell and his family farmed on a 20-acre plot in suburban Maryland, tucked between the Potomac River and megamansions in Potomac, a tony suburb that is home to powerful lobbyists, government contractors and other → Read More

Public contracts shrouded in secrecy

The government in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was desperate to find ways to fund its pension plan for city employees, which was about $160 million short. Officials decided in 2012 that selling off the city’s public water system was the best solution. → Read More

Public contracts shrouded in secrecy

Government contracting, which involves billions of dollars in public funds each year, has become one of the least transparent systems that state and local governments maintain. Under the guise of p… → Read More

Johnson, ex-county executive in Prince George’s, pleads guilty to taking bribes

In a plea deal, former Prince George’s county executive Jack B. Johnson admits in federal court that he took more than $400,000 in bribes. → Read More

Jack Johnson pleads guilty

Former Prince George’s County executive Jack B. Johnson admitted in federal court on Tuesday that he accepted a $100,000 check from a developer in exchange for steering federal funds to the builder’s project. → Read More