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Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter

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A freelance reporter based in Arizona, Stephanie was the inaugural criminal justice reporter with Signal Cleveland until October 2024. She wrote about the criminal legal system, explaining the complexities and shedding light on injustices/inequities in the system and centering the experiences of justice-involved individuals, both victims and people who go through the criminal legal system and their families.

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Kenneth Joyner, an 11-year-old black boy, places a sticky note on a white sheet stuck to the wall. The sticky notes are community members' answers to the question written on the white paper, "How should we roll out this program and communicate about it in this community?"
Posted inPublic Safety

Dozens apply to serve on committee that will advise evolving crisis response program

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 28, 2024October 25, 2024

The care response program started in September. FrontLine is working on fully staffing teams by November.

People move to small group discussion tables during a community conversation event where they discussed housing barriers in place for people with criminal records. The community event was held Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, at Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries.
Posted inGovernment

‘Everybody’s entitled to live somewhere safe’: Cuyahoga County helps formerly incarcerated with one-time housing costs 

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 22, 2024October 22, 2024
Desarae Green poses for a photo. She is in a sky blue tank top and black pants.
Posted inNews

Finding stable housing can be a struggle for people with criminal backgrounds. Cuyahoga County is working on a plan to help.

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 22, 2024October 22, 2024
Anthony Zalewski, MetroHealth injury prevention and outreach coordinator, demonstrates how to pack a wound during a gun safety event in Richmond Heights on Sept. 19, 2024.
Posted inPublic Safety

‘We need to talk about this’: Advocates encourage safe gun storage

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 17, 2024October 19, 2024
Charles Jackson (left) and Alfred Cleveland (right) rehearse "The Lynched Among Us" at Cleveland State University School of Law on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. Cleveland wears a police jacket in the scene.
Posted inCommunity Reporting

‘They thought I was a murderer’: Voices of Injustice play highlights wrongful conviction stories

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 8, 2024February 4, 2025
A photo shows Kenny Phillips and Michael Sutton, two black men who were wrongfully convicted of a crime in 2006.
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A wrongful conviction sent two Cleveland men to prison for 15 years. Now they are rebuilding their lives.

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 2, 2024October 18, 2024
Four members of the Cleveland Police Monitoring Team stand in a circle and talk in a hallway near U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver's courtroom after a status conference hearing on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at the federal courthouse.
Posted inPublic Safety

‘The lawyer games have stopped’: Police monitoring team says city is progressing on consent decree

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova September 24, 2024January 22, 2025
A photo of Chief of Police Dorothy Todd and Interim Director of Public Safety Wayne Drummond at the April 3, 2024, Safety Committee meeting.
Posted inPublic Safety

Department of Justice urges Cleveland police policy change to avoid promoting officers with serious violations

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova September 24, 2024October 18, 2024
More than 50 Clevelanders packed a bus headed to the Crime Survivors Speak March on Washington. on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. They will join thousands of crime survivors advocating for more support for crime victims.
Posted inPublic Safety

‘A healing opportunity’: Cleveland crime survivors join thousands in Washington, D.C., to advocate for change

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova September 24, 2024October 18, 2024
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb stands at a podium and talks about the city's approach to addressing and reducing crime and a news conference on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, at the Cleveland Division of Police Third District. Behind him, members of his administration listen as he credits their collective work alongside police to reduce crime.
Posted inPublic Safety

‘A group project’: Mayor Bibb credits city departments and community groups for summer crime reduction

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova September 19, 2024October 18, 2024

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