KATC s Investigative Team Honored with a Regional Murrow Award for Body of Evidence
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KATC is a recipient of a regional Edward R. Murrow award in connection with a investigative report titled Body of Evidence. In that story, KATC s Jim Hummel examines permits issued for cremations of homicide victims in Louisiana, despite a law that prohibits that. This report has also been awarded a regional Emmy Award for Investigative Reporting.
This is the third regional Edward R. Murrow award won by KATC s Investigative team. In 2020, we were honored with two in connection with The List, a series of reports on the church sex abuse crisis. The List was also awarded a regional Emmy Award for News Special following our half-hour report.
In Warwick, firefighters can earn overtime without working a full week
Jim Hummel
WARWICK Mayor Frank J. Picozzi has directed his administration to review a longtime practice that allows city firefighters to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars every year in overtime for hours they don’t actually work using sick and vacation time to trigger being paid time and a half.
Picozzi’s order came in response to a three-month investigation of city records obtained by The Hummel Report and a detailed computer analysis of the information by Ken Block, founder of the nonprofit WatchdogRI. It included an examination of every firefighter shift over the last 15 months.
By Jim Hummel, The Hummel Report
PROVIDENCE A veteran lawmaker is renewing her call for a legislative commission to take a closer look at how the state’s Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council operates and whether the agency needs a reorganization.
“They’re making really important environmental decisions that are going to affect future generations beyond us,” said Rep. Deborah Ruggiero, a Democrat from Jamestown, who filed a bill late last week calling for a 15-member broad-based commission. Its mission would be to examine CRMC over the next year and bring back recommendations to the General Assembly.
Ruggiero filed the bill after two high-profile cases exposed by The Hummel Report, and published in the Providence Journal, over the past several months: one involving a controversial marina expansion on Block Island that was settled by CRMC out of the public view in December with no notice to opponents. The state Supreme Court - at the urging of Attorney Genera
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