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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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Drawn image of sandwich bag of 2.5 oz of marijuana.
Posted inElections

How Issue 2 would affect people currently facing marijuana charges

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 26, 2023October 18, 2024
Issue 2 would legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio for people age 21 and older. Drawn image showing six marijuana plants, an Ohio identification card and a beg of marijuana.
Posted inElections

Issue 2 would legalize recreational marijuana- here’s what that means 

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 17, 2023October 19, 2024
RTA ambassadors and other passengers wait for the Red Line train at the Ohio City station.
Posted inWhy I wrote this

How the RTA is making public transit safer 

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 5, 2023October 25, 2023
Ebony Allen , an RTA ambassador, talks to a man as he sits on the steps, head down in his hands, at the Red Line Puritas station on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.
Posted inPublic Safety

RTA says ambassadors, social workers provide safer transit rides

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 5, 2023November 29, 2023
Aisha Robertson talks about her fight as she advocated for her brother, Dwayne Brooks, to be freed from prison at a rally outside the Justice Center on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.
Posted inPublic Safety

Exonerees, advocates raise awareness about wrongful conviction

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova October 3, 2023October 18, 2024
ADAMHS Board members look at meeting documents during their Wednesday, Sept. 27 meeting.
Posted inPublic Safety

ADAMHS Board reconsidering managing diversion center in 2024

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova September 28, 2023January 22, 2025
ADAMHS Board members and community members listen as CEO Scott Osiecki talks during a Planning and Oversight Committee meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.
Posted inPublic Safety

ADAMHS Board will not re-apply to operate the Cuyahoga County Diversion Center

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova September 21, 2023January 22, 2025
Five members of the Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance pose for a photo in a hallway at Euclid High School.
Posted inPublic Safety

$40,000 grant will help Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance with violence prevention work

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova September 18, 2023September 19, 2023
From left, CEO Scott Osiecki, Kate Kern-Pilch, second vice chair, and Maggie Tolbert, assistant chief clinical officer, with the ADAMHS Board, talk about care response at a Planning and Oversight Committee meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Osiecki talked about what the board is focusing on as it plans for a non-police crisis response team in Cleveland.
Posted inPublic Safety

ADAMHS Board working with FrontLine on non-police response pilot program

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova September 15, 2023November 29, 2023
A group of new EMTs go through training as part of the civilian-to-EMT program.
Posted inPublic Safety

Cleveland EMS leaders want more paramedics

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova September 14, 2023October 5, 2023

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