‘Deliberate indifference’ has undermined lawsuits over jail deaths across the country (The Marshall Project)
When conviction integrity units exonerate the innocent, prosecutors escape blame (New York Focus)
DAs promised to help the wrongfully convicted. Instead, they made things worse. (New York Focus)
Court records undercut DA’s testimony on discovery rollbacks (New York Focus)
A Supreme Court fight just might start with a few vacant NYC apartments (Gothamist)
Hundreds of sex abuse lawsuits against NYC ready to move forward after months in limbo (Gothamist)
Investigations and Legal Affairs
How the pandemic divided the California county where 1 in 300 people died of COVID
Finding himself: A transgender child and his parents sort through a new reality
(Related: Research on transgender children still in its infancy)How a deadly freeze laid bare the limits of NYC's efforts to help its most vulnerable (Gothamist)
What we’ll lose at the water’s edge — on sea-level rise in the Bay Area
She was a leading lesbian activist before disappearing into the Northern California woods
Feminist force: Rebecca Solnit revisits her formative past in new memoir
In new collection, Marin poet Kay Ryan contemplates nuances of loss
Long-form Narratives and Profiles
“Monica Gandhi is S.F.'s outlier COVID expert. Her view: ‘I’m not saying anything crazy’”
After 12 months of coronavirus, the Bay Area reflects on a year of loss, and a lost year
‘A long short life’: Family, friends believe S.F. man was ‘indirect victim’ of pandemic
Essential and ignored: Working in a pandemic
(Related: Portraits of those risking their life to keep a nation in crisis working)Coronavirus has changed the very act of dying and saying goodbye
How SF’s battle with HIV/AIDS shaped today’s coronavirus response
Public Health and Pandemic
Technology and Media
Why the internet fell for a Chinatown passport photographer (Gothamist)
The Ohlone are building a new homeland in the East Bay, 1 half-acre at a time
(Related: Indigenous women lead effort to reclaim ancestral lands)‘We have many challenges in the Tenderloin and a rooster is now one of them’
‘Another nail in the coffin of gay SF’: Nob Hill Theatre closed after 50 years
Community and Place
Arts and Culture
Rikers death and dysfunction: A challenge for Mamdani as monitor finds 'disturbing pattern' (Gothamist)
(Related: Appointee given major authority to reform Rikers is an unexpected pick)Escape from 'death by incarceration?' Bill would revisit long sentences for NY prisoners. (Gothamist)
Conservatives want California schools to ban CRT — and they’re organizing
NJ lawmakers look to clamp down on cooperation with ICE in Murphy's final days (Gothamist)
Bathhouse ban revoked: Amid one pandemic, SF confronts the legacy of another
Government and Public Policy