The Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers claims showing officers’ pictures violated state law, but the lawsuit raises concerns about violations of press freedom.
Briana Erickson
Reporter: Homeless and veterans issues
Email: berickson@reviewjournal.com
Phone: 702-387-5244
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Briana Erickson covers homeless and veterans’ issues for the Review-Journal. A proud “Florida Woman” living in the desert, she centers her reporting around people living in the shadows.
Before joining the Review-Journal in 2017, the University of Florida graduate wrote for the North Central Florida NPR affiliate and the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She was named College Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists.
One corrections officer worked 13 days in a row of 12-hour or longer shifts without a day off.
Laughlin deputy constable Craig Dahlheimer was shopping at a Henderson grocery store when he tried to stop juveniles from stealing alcohol, police records show.
Jeff German was posthumously awarded the prestigious Don Bolles Medal at the national Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Orlando, Florida.
The Nevada Legislature uses tax dollars to investigate its own lawmakers but blocks the public release of information about the investigations.
Law enforcement heard concerns that state Sen. Dina Neal may have used campaign funds to pay off a $20,000 house lien, the Review-Journal has learned.
State Sen. Dina Neal, D-North Las Vegas, is under investigation after claims she urged the firing of a grant administrator who refused to provide $20,000 to her friend’s business, records show.
One gambler told the FBI that Stephen Paddock, who opened fire on concertgoers on Oct. 1, 2017, killing 60, was “very upset at the way casinos were treating him.”
Keith Weller, who lives with former Las Vegas City Attorney Brad Jerbic, is a registered sex offender — for now.
Deadly crashes involving marijuana are rising in Nevada. Traffic experts fear cannabis lounges will make the problem worse.
At the time of Jeffrey Hair’s arrest this month, he had a clean driving record, despite a history of traffic violations that were reduced to parking tickets.
Chad Williams, the controversial ex-director of Southern Nevada’s housing authority, is accused of punching a sleeping woman, and then kicking her in the ribs and face.
The complaints by an ex-prosecutor against commissioner Leo Blundo and DA Chris Arabia have both been dismissed. Arabia called it “malicious garbage.”
The Clark County district attorney’s office has declined to pursue a felony hit-and-run charge against outgoing Henderson police union President Gary Hargis.
Complaints about the former elected county official started while he was a UNLV student. His toxic behavior never stopped – until investigative reporter Jeff German was found murdered.
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