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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Activists say Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb did not follow the charter amendment that created the new Community Police Commission when he chose the members. -
Aden has served as monitor for three years and spent two years as deputy monitor before that. -
A letter from Armond Budish and Pernel Jones criticized Prosecutor Michael O'Malley, Judge Brendan Sheehan, and Public Defender Cullen Sweeney for putting up road blocks -
The constitutional amendment would take power out of the hands of the Supreme Court to set rules for how bail can be used. -
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Carr was cited by the court for holding hearings and issuing warrants during the early days of the pandemic and for two years of infractions of court procedures. -
The federal judge overseeing police reforms under a federal consent decree with Cleveland, Solomon Oliver, said "while the city has made substantial progress, it has not yet achieved substantial and effective compliance at this time." -
![The now-rejected site for the new jail was on privately owned land close to Downtown Cleveland and, unlike a nearby site that the county considered, has the support of the local city councilman. [ Google Maps]](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/45f53e6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1374x766+0+3/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F80%2Fea%2Fb5dc88204b869495faceb0a1f0c5%2Fjailsite-web.png)
The decision comes as county council was on the verge of approving the $20 million purchase of a site for the jail and the extension of a sales tax to pay for it. -
The gunshot detection technology will cover a 13-square-mile area of the city, encompassing about one-third of city residents. -
If approved, the city would spend $2.8 million to expand Shotspotter to cover 13 square miles of the city.
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A review of nine videos from Cleveland police shows instances where stops and searches were conducted based solely on alerts from the city's gunshot detection system.
![The now-rejected site for the new jail was on privately owned land close to Downtown Cleveland and, unlike a nearby site that the county considered, has the support of the local city councilman. [ Google Maps]](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/aa60e03/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1374x766+0+3/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F80%2Fea%2Fb5dc88204b869495faceb0a1f0c5%2Fjailsite-web.png)
