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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.

Tensions and emotions run high at Tennessee statehouse over gun measures

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Democrats and Republicans in the Tennessee House faced off over a slew of gun bills heard this week.

First came the warning signs. Then a teen opened fire on a Nashville school.

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Tennessee authorities were alerted to Solomon Henderson’s threatening and violent behavior long before he brought a gun to Antioch High School. It’s unclear how many red flags were heeded.

A rural Tennessee county changed the way it separates guns from dangerous people. Now the rest of the state may follow suit.

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Two Republican state lawmakers filed legislation that would change Tennessee’s firearms dispossession form, closing a loophole that experts say leaves domestic violence victims vulnerable.

Tennessee moms fight for policy changes after their sons were illegally isolated in juvenile detention

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The mothers say their sons were locked in solitary confinement, sometimes for weeks at a time when they were inside a juvenile detention center.

Two Families Sue After 11-Year-Old and 13-Year-Old Students Were Arrested Under Tennessee’s School Threat Law

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The lawsuits, filed in federal court this month, argue East Tennessee school officials violated students’ rights by calling the police on them under Tennessee’s threats of mass violence law.

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