Matthew Richmond
Reporter/ProducerExpertise: Police, courts, radio and writing
Education: University of Southern California - Master of Science, journalism
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: In a kayak near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River
Experience:
Matthew Richmond has worked as a journalist since 2011, first as a stringer in South Sudan, then as a public radio radio reporter in upstate New York covering hydrofracking before arriving in Cleveland in 2016.
Highlights:
- 2022 & 2023 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Criminal Justice Reporting
- Reporting fellow for "Guns & America" - a public media reporting project focused on firearms, their role and history in U.S. society and the laws surrounding their distribution and possession in Ohio and nationwide
- Reporting on the criminal justice system in Northeast Ohio, with a particular focus on policing, prosecutors and responses to violent crime
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Ru-El Sailor was convicted in 2003 and sentenced to life in prison before his conviction was vacated in 2018. -
Community members on the Conviction Integrity Unit of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, added by Prosecutor Michael O'Malley in 2017, have resigned, saying it's "window dressing." -
Bibb chose Leigh Anderson, an assistant professor with experience working on police oversight in several cities, to lead the office. -
The 8th District Court of Appeals found that during Ken Mills' trial a visiting judge should have never allowed the use of a photo of a person who died at the jail and testimony about deaths there, including from outside the time period when Mills was employed by the county. -
County Executive-elect Chris Ronayne has a long history in local politics, including stints as chief of staff for former Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell and president of University Circle, Inc. -
Documents from Maple Heights Police Officer Terrance Duncan's hiring show he was forced to resign from Brooklyn Police for poor performance. He's been restored to duty after shooting a 22-year-old suspect.- -
Both Ronayne and Weingart want to bring down jail population dramatically and reuse one of the existing jail buildings. -
Melissa Musson was found "in distress" in her cell 24 hours after arriving at the Cuyahoga County jail and died shortly after being found early Tuesday morning. -
Bell Hardaway began working with the Cleveland police monitoring team in 2015 and currently serves as deputy monitor. -
Activists say Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb did not follow the charter amendment that created the new Community Police Commission when he chose the members.
