Paul Flahive
Accountability ReporterPaul Flahive is an investigative reporter with nearly two decades of experience writing for various publications and public broadcasters.
His work has exposed systemic problems in Texas' unemployment system, prisons, foster care, and the treatment of child victims of sex abuse.
His work has had institutional impact. One story led to the change of a decade-long policy in Texas prisons that forced women in solitary confinement to wear gowns, rather than uniforms as male prisoners wore. Another story led to a state investigation that ultimately closed a foster placement agency that had taken in more millions in taxpayer funds for being "an immediate risk to child safety."
His work has been heard by millions on Marketplace, NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and elsewhere.
He co-edited "Worth Repeating" a collection of stories from the show he created of the same name, published 2023 from Trinity University Press
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Texas Public Radio spent more than a year analyzing more than 1,200 deaths from abuse and neglect between 2018 and 2023. The project, funded by the Pulitzer Center, brings stories of children who died when the state of Texas failed to intervene. TPR Accountability reporter Paul Flahive uncovered a child welfare system so intent on reducing its contact with troubled families that children have routinely been left with violent, unstable, drug-abusing parents. -
Informó que el 41% de todos los tiradores en masa tenían antecedentes de violencia doméstica. -
It reported that 41% of all mass shooters had a history of domestic violence.
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A pesar del aumento de muertes, Texas limitó los servicios de seguridad y consagró leyes que hacían más difícil sacar a un niño. -
Despite rising deaths, Texas limited safety services and enshrined laws that made it harder to remove a child.
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Texas mantiene al público en la oscuridad sobre las acciones o inacciones de sus agencias en las muertes por abuso y negligencia infantil. -
Texas keeps public in the dark on its agencies actions or inactions in child abuse and neglect deaths
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Despite two child welfare investigations and child abandonment charges, Hardiquinn Hill was allowed to stay with her abusers and died. -
Texas reports drop in child abuse and neglect deaths but the numbers don’t tell the whole story. -
TPR catalogued the number of deaths and built an interactive website.
