Katie Hyson
Katie Hyson was a Report for America Corps Member at WUFT News covering racial and rural inequities in East Gainesville and north central Florida. She now works for KPBS in San Diego.
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Misconduct charges were sustained against five Gainesville police officers. Community members say it won’t change a problematic culture.
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The Gainesville Immigrant Neighbor Inclusion Initiative announced Wednesday progress made in the six months since they unveiled a blueprint for Gainesville to become a welcoming city.
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The investigations found no policy violations in the arrest of Terrell Bradley, the Gainesville resident who lost his eye to a K9 after running from a traffic stop.
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The former officer's allegations describe a culture of normalized racism on the K9 unit now under scrutiny for the mauling of a Black resident.
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The school's students, nearly all Black, earned the highest learning gains in the district and outperformed the county's white students on the state assessment.
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A mural on the 34th Street for Terrell Bradley, who lost his eye to a Gainesville Police K9 following a traffic stop, has become a battleground between calls for justice and symbols of white supremacy.
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Members of the Richard E. Parker Alumni Band invited the community to protest at the next school board meeting. It’s the latest step in a story that has been unfolding for 52 years.
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Gainesville poised to become first Florida city to end exclusionary zoning, despite community outcryThe zoning change replaces the current single-family zoning with a new “neighborhood residential” category that allows property owners to build up to four units in a building.
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While her experiences unfolded within north central Florida justice systems and Lowell prison, the filmmakers say this is a nationwide issue.
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The mauling of Black resident Terrell Bradley by a Gainesville Police K9 stirred community cries for reform.