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Taylor Tiamoyo Harris
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Click the link in my bio to learn more and read my first investigation for The New York Times.
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📺 Watch here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/business-of-disaster/
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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💡Beyond the money, "The Business of Disaster" showed how prolonged recovery wore people down. Stress. Anxiety. Depression. For many, the aftermath was worse than the storm. But the film also offers lessons about oversight, equity & what must change before the next disaster.
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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📄🌀In New York and New Jersey, lower-income & minority communities often waited the longest. Confusing policies, endless paperwork & unqualified caseworkers from high-priced consulting firms delayed help—leaving families displaced for years.
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🏚️ These doctored reports led to flood insurance underpayments. Survivors were told their damage was pre-existing or unrelated. Many felt ignored, denied, or even blamed for their own devastation.
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🔍🚨 Engineering firms hired by insurers were caught fraudulently altering damage reports—ignoring photo and physical evidence. This was also confirmed by Congressional oversight and audits found flaws in claims processing.
June 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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What I found: a system meant to reform pretrial detention, but instead deepened punishment and instability.

Missouri is the lens — but the pattern is national.

Read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

#CriminalJustice #Surveillance #ElectronicMonitoring #InvestigativeJournalism
Amid Calls to Reform Bail, Judges in St. Louis Embrace Ankle Monitors
Proponents say the devices have helped address inequities in the criminal justice system. But many defendants have experienced unintended consequences.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I interviewed people directly impacted, analyzed years of contract data, tracked budget expansions, reviewed court records and followed the money behind a tool that now shapes hundreds of lives.

And yet, there's little regulation, public tracking, or debate about how it's used, or misused.
April 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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