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Paige Pfleger

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

Tyre Nichols’ death thrust Tennessee’s policing into the national spotlight. Still, state Republicans want to abolish community-led police oversight boards.

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Just days after body camera footage was released showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis Police officers, Tennessee Republicans filed a bill that would take police oversight powers away from civilian boards.

A record-breaking number of guns have been stolen from cars in Tennessee. State Democrats are introducing legislation to crack down on gun owners.

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A new bill introduced in the Tennessee House and Senate would make it an offense to irresponsibly leave a gun in a car or boat.

Continuing Coverage: Abortion In Depth

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Sixty days after the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, Tennessee imposed the most draconian ban on abortion in the country. A total ban, with no clear exceptions — not even for rape, incest or to save the life of the patient.

‘It’s been a never-ending cycle’: Inside the confusion and heartache of one family’s experience with Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services

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Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services is struggling — from shortages of case workers to lack of appropriate foster placements. So what impact do those problems have on the children this system is meant to serve?

Here are the bills that gun control advocates are watching during this Tennessee legislative session

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Every year, dozens of bills related to guns are introduced in Tennessee’s legislature. Here are the bills that gun control advocates are looking out for in the upcoming session.

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