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LEFT IN LIMBO: A year-long @WLBT investigation finds the @VicksburgPD failed to send 121 felony cases to the DA's office, leaving cases stalled & families without justice.
City officials only acknowledged the problem after we started digging.
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LEFT IN LIMBO: A year-long @WLBT investigation finds the @VicksburgPD failed to send 121 felony cases to the DA's office, leaving cases stalled & families without justice.
City officials only acknowledged the problem after we started digging.
A thread. /1
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Mar 6
Thompson says the city needs better technology and tracking systems to prevent this from happening again.
But for families like C.J. Woodland’s, the damage is already done.
He was killed three years ago.
The trial for the men accused in his killing begins in June. /9
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Jan 27
THREAD: For a second day, power outages across MS hover around 10%. 1 in 10 homes is without electricity.
Those numbers don't illustrate total residents affected. Accounting for avg household size, we're talking 360,000 Mississippians.
Source: poweroutage.us /1
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That's because seventeen utilities in those areas aren't tracked by the website. In other words, we don't know whether 171,005 homes and businesses in the state are impacted. That translates into almost half a million people in the state whose status we really don't know. /3
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In other words, take the numbers you're hearing with a grain of salt and know that the real problem -- especially in north Mississippi -- could be far worse than is being reported, because we simply don't have access to all of that information. /4
#WinterWeather #wlbt
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Jan 21
Yes, according to a cursory review.
I found four reports where OSA appears to have taken sides on policy issues and produced materials that qualify as advocacy.
That's not a violation of law, but appears to be the same thing Madison County Schools was criticized for here. /1
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Has the auditor's office ever taken a side on an issue or put out information that constitutes advocacy?
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4. "Plugging the Brain Drain: Investing in College Majors That Actually Work" (September 2023) argues that taxpayer dollars should be directed away from certain degree programs and explicitly recommends that MS needs to "adopt policies" for that. /5
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The point isn’t that this advocacy is illegal. It isn’t.
The point is that policy advocacy by a government entity isn’t inherently improper, and it’s something the Auditor’s office itself has done often in recent years. /6
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