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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En una solicitud presentada el miércoles, el concejal Manny Peláez pidió a sus colegas que consideraran nombrar el aeropuerto en honor al hombre que durante tres décadas estableció y dirigió "una cultura de excelencia, dignidad, respeto, integridad y servicio desinteresado...". -
In a request filed Wednesday, Councilman Manny Pelaez asked his colleagues to consider naming the airport for the man who for three decades established and led "a culture of excellence, dignity, respect, integrity, and selfless service..."
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More than 11,000 Afghans hold Temporary Protected Status, having fled Afghanistan under the Taliban, often under the threat of violence. Now they could be deported back. -
Judge Janis Jack, who called Texas’ foster care system 'broken' in a 2015 ruling against the state that started the process of federal court oversight, may not be done with the case she presided over for 13 years just yet. -
While uncertainty reigns, TPR has an idea of what could come as the administration levies concerted effort to defund public media. -
More than 1,000 criminal cases will be reviewed in Texas because of the problems with Qiagen DNA tests. -
Ivalis Meza Gonzalez will face off against Paula McGee in a June 7 runoff. -
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.
