Investigation

Counties would have to report their public defenders' workloads under the proposed legislation.

The records provide a first-of-its-kind look into how a historic investment in homeless housing played out.

The bill is inspired by a CalMatters story that revealed state law allows the DMV to collect money from towed cars in secret.

Records reveal the investigation was based on the thinnest of evidence, raising alarms over how the November election could be disrupted.

A CalMatters investigation finds the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau hasn't fulfilled its promise to protect Californians, even as the state’s population ages.

Following a CalMatters investigation, a new judge has ordered Angelique Friend to stop hiring her husband’s companies with her clients’ money.

'The first thing that you do when you give an agent a gun and a badge and the authority over American people is to make sure that they follow the Constitution, period.'

The state Senate's hearing on driving laws was spurred by a CalMatters investigation into California's approach to deadly drivers.

‘There is either moral culpability or legal liability on them,' the Placer County DA said, 'and they are actively seeking to prevent that from being disclosed.'

California lawmakers created the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau to monitor self-dealing in the industry. Twenty years later, the bureau’s inaction in one case shows how conflicts of interest can continue for years with little consequence.