Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

Arizona voters approved in-state tuition for undocumented students. The state left implementation to chance.

After Arizona voters approved a 2022 ballot initiative granting in-state tuition to undocumented students, the state put no ...
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Patients file grievances, experts want reforms at Arizona State Hospital

This project was funded in part by support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Isaac Contreras lives alone and he says it’s making him sick. He’s got a room and a bathroom to himself, but the ...
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Tag: DACA

After Arizona voters approved a 2022 ballot initiative granting in-state tuition to undocumented students, the state put no centralized system in place to track participation or ensure consistent ...
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Dozens of people died in Arizona sober living homes as state officials fumbled Medicaid fraud response

Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the ...
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Experts warn of radicalization pipeline as Sedona wellness communities, anti-government groups share space

SEDONA—Natural light filtered through New Age tapestries covering skylights at the Ultimate Light Mission community center on the outskirts of Sedona, softening the afternoon sun as the woody ...
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Border911: The misinformation network profiting off the false invasion narrative

Dark money and charity organizations led by former intelligence officers and ex-feds have been spreading propaganda and laying the groundwork for presidential election challenges. For a retired ...
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How AZCIR identified Arizona’s ‘constitutional sheriffs’

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) and Protect America Now are the most ...
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Did the Biden Administration redirect Social Security funds to support unauthorized immigrants?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. There is no evidence that funds from the Social Security Administration were redirected to support ...
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‘Sovereign citizen’ filings flood Pima County, parallel national resurgence of controversial movement

A 63-page packet arrived at the Pima County Recorder’s Office in January, postmarked from Texas with unusual formatting identifying the sender: oddly hyphenated names, stray colons and bracketed-off ...
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Did an ‘audit’ of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results find that then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs included fraudulent mail-in ballots?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. An “audit” of 2020 election results commissioned by Arizona’s Republican-led Senate in 2021 did not find ...
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The Border Propagandist

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Jaeson Jones is trained as a cop—not a journalist. Yet the 51-year-old holds a lucrative correspondent ...
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Corporate marijuana dispensaries flex financial muscle, overtake Arizona’s social equity program

Denzel Mason was halfway through his Friday shift as an assistant manager at Phoenix Relief Center, a marijuana dispensary in southwest Phoenix, when his phone rang with the news. He had spent much of ...