Kiah Collier

Please take 15 minutes and read this story, the best you’ll find about the Texas floods. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

🧵 NEW: We spent months analyzing 263 cases involving jailed defendants that Travis DA Jose Garza's office did not indict within a state-imposed 90-day window and found examples of people languishing behind bars — and violent suspects returned to the street. 1/5

A dive into how immigration fears played out at one Northeast Austin elementary school, with scares that kept parents away kept attendance numbers low and had parents stay away from student pick-up. For @statesman: statesman.com/story/news/loc…

The morning after the election, undocumented men at an Austin Home Depot tell me they're optimistic about Trump. Their reasons why help illuminate the historic red shift among Latino voters in Texas. For @statesman: statesman.com/story/news/pol…

1/ NEW from @propublica : Josseli Barnica is one of at least two Texas women who we found lost their lives after doctors delayed treating miscarriages, which fall under a gray area in the state’s abortion ban. propublica.org/article/jossel…

Doctors said it was “inevitable” that Texas mother Josseli Barnica would miscarry. Yet they waited 40 hours for the fetal heartbeat to stop. More than a dozen doctors who reviewed the case at @ProPublica’s request said Barnica’s death was “preventable." statesman.com/story/news/hea…

BREAKING: Sentencing for Christopher Taylor, the APD cop found guilty of deadly conduct earlier this month, will begin tomorrow and continue into Thursday. Story TK. @statesman

Not the case in Travis County...

My friend Mariel Garza just resigned as editorials editor of @latimes after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plan to endorse Kamala Harris for president. cjr.org/business_of_ne…

Texas AG Ken Paxton, defending the Robert Roberson conviction, cites the words of a jailhouse snitch. Snitch testimony is a red flag for a weak case. Prosecutors didn't even call the snitch. He was too unreliable. But not too unreliable for Paxton. docs.google.com/document/d/1lq…

Late Thursday, the Austin City Council overwhelmingly approved a controversial contract with the city's police union. The 10-1 vote came after hours of public testimony that featured a wide range of viewpoints on the 5-yr, $218M deal. #atx #policing statesman.com/story/news/loc…

Set up at location for Trump press event in Austin later. We’re expecting him to discuss immigration and border security as you can see from the signs

Travis County sees big turnout on first day of early voting statesman.com/story/news/loc… via @statesman

A group of Texas lawmakers is pulling out all the stops tonight to prevent Robert Roberson's execution from going forward, because they're so troubled by his case. I've been covering the death penalty here since the '90s and I've never seen anything like it.

Many thanks to the @HeadlinersFnd for honoring @KiahCollier, @LChurchilll and I with the Star Investigative report of the year for our story on state contracts for child ID kits. 3rd year in a row our joint investigative unit has taken the state’s top investigative prize!

Thread: Two years ago today, 19 fourth-graders and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. The children loved TikTok and baseball, Pokémon and Starbucks. The teachers died trying to save their students. This is who they were: expressnews.com/projects/uvald…

Honored to be awarded the Collier Prize for government accountability for our team’s Uvalde reporting & hope that it keeps attention on the devastating failures that day, the warnings they should send every community, & the lack of accountability & transparency 2 years later. 🧵

Many thanks to @TexasEditors and @HeadlinersFnd for honoring @KiahCollier, @LChurchilll and I with the state's top award for investigative reporting for our story on a former NFL player who convinced state leaders to spend millions on fingerprint kits. texastribune.org/2023/05/08/ken…

FELICIDADES to @KiahCollier & team @JinATX @LChurchilll for winning in the STAR investigative category for this bonkers story about a former NFL player who convinced Texas officials to spend millions on his company's child-fingerprinting kits through lies. texastribune.org/2023/05/08/ken…

@lomikriel @JinATX @LChurchilll Thank you, sweet friend!

Congratulations to all the talented Texas journalists who were recognized in @TexasEditors awards, especially to STAR reporter @eklib who deserves that & more for her disturbing, revelatory & compassionate reporting on women's health for @TexasTribune texasmanagingeditors.org/2024/04/20/are…