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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.

Internal investigation shows editing of MNPD body camera footage was more widespread than claimed

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A Metro Nashville Police Department internal investigation, obtained by WPLN News this week, revealed that more than one employee was altering body camera footage without permission.

The results are in on Nashville’s four charter amendments

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It appears that all four charter amendments have been approved by voters. The amendments to the city charter helped make this year’s ballot the longest in Metro history. Here’s what will change now that they have passed: Amendment 1 – Petition requirements Amendment 1 alters the process of how the charter is amended — yes, very […]

Travis Lampley is likely Rutherford County’s new juvenile judge. He takes over a system that sowed distrust with its treatment of children.

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It appears that Republican Travis Lampley will be the next juvenile court judge of Rutherford County. Lampley is the assistant district attorney and brings a decade of experience in juvenile courts to the role.

To replace, or retain? Here’s how to navigate all those questions about judges on Nashville’s ballot

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To retain, or replace: that is the question. Or, at least, it’s a question you’ll be greeted with more than 20 times when you go to vote.  

Women are underrepresented in Nashville police. Could ballot Amendment 2 help?

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Right now, people who want to become police officers in Nashville are subject to standards based off the military. There are height and weight requirements, and health history requirements.

Following the Uvalde shooting, police presence at Nashville schools will be at ‘highest levels ever’

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Nashville high schools will have at least two permanent school resource officers, and magnets will have regular visits. A few middle schools have permanent SROs, and others will have rotating coverage.

As students return to classrooms, it’s Tennessee elementary schools that have added the most school resource officers

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It’s back to school for students across Tennessee, and safety is top of mind after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. That has reopened the discussion about school safety, and resource officers.

Nashville’s police oversight board recommends body camera audit after incident with edited footage

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Nashville’s Community Oversight Board has more questions about the circumstances surrounding an edited body camera video. An MNPD IT employee removed swearing from body camera footage before giving it to the board for investigation.

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