Corrections

Correction, July 21, 2022: Two photo captions in this story originally misidentified the locations where the photos were shot. They were at the Port of Los Angeles, not the Port of Long Beach.

Correction, July 14, 2022: This story originally misidentified one of the news organizations involved in the 2019 investigation. It was Searchlight New Mexico, not Searchlight Mexico.

Correction, July 1, 2022: This story originally misspelled the first name of the Federal Trade Commission chair. She is Lina Khan, not Linda.

Correction, June 17, 2022: This story originally misspelled the first name of one of the people who spoke at the Cherokee County School Board meeting. She is Lori Raney, not Lauri.

Correction, June 8, 2022: The caption for the first picture in this story originally misstated Amari’s age. She is now 14 years old, not 11, which was her age at the time of her 2020 hospitalization.

Correction, June 6, 2022: This story originally gave a mistaken impression of the circumstances under which coded wire tags are removed from fish. The tags are taken from fish that are already dead, not from living fish that are killed by the process.

Correction, June 1, 2022: This story originally misstated the fatalities of a shooting. A father-to-be was killed, not left in critical condition.

Correction, May 5, 2022: An earlier version of this database misstated whether some districts provided a racial breakdown of students who were issued tickets. Pontiac Township HSD 90, Naperville CUSD 203, Geneseo CUSD 228 and Northfield Township HSD 225 were listed as not providing race data when in fact they did provide race data, but it covered too few tickets (fewer than five) to meet our threshold for displaying a breakdown. In addition, an earlier version of this database misstated the total number of tickets issued to students in Bradley Bourbonnais CHSD 307 in the school years ending in 2019, 2020 and 2021. The district issued 109 tickets in those years, not 137, a number that included some tickets issued in the current school year.

Correction, April 29, 2022: This story originally misstated when Jayne Wilson moved out of her Timbers townhouse. Betsy Wilson said her mother moved in with her before 2020, not in 2020.

Correction, April 27, 2022: This story originally stated that James Penrose called Staci Burk in late December. According to Burk, the two spoke with each other but the call was initiated by a third party.

Correction, March 30, 2022: This story originally gave the wrong name for the college at which Jamie DeWitt is a toxicology professor. She is at East Carolina University, not Eastern Carolina University.

Correction, March 28, 2022: This story originally misstated who proposed to reinstate 200 psychiatric beds in state hospitals. The state Senate made that proposal, not Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Correction, March 28, 2022: This story originally misstated who proposed to reinstate 200 psychiatric beds in state hospitals. The state Senate made that proposal, not Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Correction, March 11, 2022: This story originally misstated what TikTok communicated about its actions. The company said that after receiving ProPublica’s questions, it removed any active accounts it had been asked about, along with 98 others that the social media company linked to a pro-Russia network identified by ProPublica; TikTok did not decline to say how many accounts were removed.

Correction, Feb. 7, 2022: This story incorrectly described Yardi Matrix. The company provides data and research on multifamily, student housing, office, industrial and self-storage properties across the United States. It is not a property manager.

Correction, Feb. 3, 2022: This story originally mischaracterized full-page ads taken out in a local newspaper by the Midwest Sterilization Corporation. They stress the importance of ethylene oxide to the health care industry and emphasize that a small portion of the chemical is used to sterilize medical equipment. They do not say that the EPA is wrong about the dangers of ethylene oxide.

Correction, Jan. 27, 2022: This story originally misstated how the EPA’s Pollution Accountability Team is planning to track emissions from above. The team will use an ASPECT plane, not a helicopter.

Correction, Jan. 23, 2022: This story originally misidentified the judge who dismissed the Snohomish Health District from a lawsuit. It was King County Superior Court Judge Theresa Doyle, not Douglass North.

Correction, Jan. 15, 2022: This story originally misstated what happened with Baker College’s Port Huron campus. Baker slashed operations there but left open a culinary program; it did not cease operations entirely.

Correction, Jan. 14, 2022: Correction: This story originally misstated the name of a lender that was responsible for 30,000 canceled loans. It was Fountainhead SBF, not Fountainhead Commercial Capital, which is a sister firm.

Correction, Jan. 3, 2022: This story originally misstated the U.S. poverty rate before it made its largest jump in 60 years of tracking. The national poverty rate in June 2020 was 9.6%, not 2.4%.

Correction, Dec. 22, 2021: This story originally misstated how much ethylene oxide BASF’s plant in Geismar, Louisiana, is capable of making each year. It is 220,000 metric tons, not 220 metric tons.

Correction, Dec. 16, 2021: This story originally gave the wrong ages for Mike Garrett’s parents at the time of their deaths. Garrett’s father died at 67, not 63, and his mother died at 69, not 67.

Correction, Dec. 10, 2021: This story originally misattributed a quotation. “A lot has changed over the last month for the better. The last month has been a breath of fresh air, a clear culture shift thanks to the interim executive director” was spoken by Ashley Hammer, not Jackie Amorim.

Correction, Dec. 10, 2021: The caption with the first image misstated the origin of the pictured bricks. They were from the demolition of the Reno Mercantile building, not piled in a dirt lot where the Town House Motor Lodge once stood.

Correction, Nov. 11, 2021: We’ve updated this story with a statement that Liberty University sent ProPublica published.

Correction, Oct. 25, 2021: This story originally misstated who Atdner Casco alleged took him to his daughter’s school in handcuffs. He said it was immigration agents, not Detective George Kister and Deputy Julio Alvarado.

Correction, Sept. 30, 2021: This story originally misstated the occupation of Barron Gardner’s wife. She is a teacher, not a nurse.

Correction, Sept. 23, 2021: This story originally misreported the number of ProPublica reader survey respondents earning less than $75,000 in income in 2020. It was 44%, not 43%.

Correction, Sept. 15, 2021: This story originally misstated the dates of the Capstone program. It began in 1999, not 1996.

Correction, Sept. 10, 2021: This story originally stated incorrectly that Apple’s iMessage system has no “report” button. The iMessage system does have a report button, but only for suspected spam (not for suspected abusive content).

Correction, Aug. 19, 2021: This story originally misstated a finding by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. It said “bright spots” weren’t sustainable without a U.S. presence, not unsustainable.

Correction, Agosto 18, 2021: Una versión anterior de este artículo señalaba de forma incorrecta la ubicación de la comunidad indígena purépecha. Se encuentra en Michoacán, no en las afueras del estado.

Correction, Aug. 18, 2021: This story originally misstated the location of the indigenous Mexican Purhépecha community. It is in Michoacán, not outside it.

Correction, Aug. 17, 2021: This story originally misspelled the name of Shalemu Bekele’s 7-year-old daughter. Her name was Rakaeb, not Rakeb.

Correction, July 23, 2021: A caption with this story originally misstated Heidi Lucas’ job description. She is director of the Missouri Nurses Association, but is not herself a nurse.

Correction, July 17, 2021: This story originally incorrectly stated how Christopher Duntsch’s time at Millsaps College was subsidized. He received financial aid, not a football scholarship.

Correction, June 29, 2021: This story originally treated a father and son both named Roger Norman as a single person. The elder Norman is the one who gave an interview about gaining and losing fortunes. The younger Norman, who is in business with his father, is the one who donated to President Donald Trump.

Correction, June 28, 2021: A caption with this story originally misstated the action President Donald Trump took to prevent Roger Stone from serving prison time. Trump commuted Stone’s sentence, not his conviction.

Correction, June 14, 2021: This story originally misstated the time frame of the decline in legal actions that hospitals and health systems took to collect medical debt and, in a subheading, the degree of that drop. Actions declined by nearly 90%, not 92%, and the decline occurred in the first seven months of 2020, compared to 2019, not in the whole of 2020.

Correction, June 12, 2021: This story originally misidentified which officer knocked on Kawaski Trawick’s door and pushed it open. It was Herbert Davis, not Brendan Thompson.

Correction, June 7, 2021: This story originally misstated that lead was found in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, in 2014. The contamination began in 2014, but it was discovered in 2015.

Correction, May 20, 2021: Due to a geocoding error, a map with this story originally misplaced a loan recipient. It was in South Carolina, not North Carolina.

Correction, May 17, 2021: ProPublica removed biographical details about mother Annette Ligon, who claimed to be practicing psychology, after learning that she had, under a different name, pleaded guilty to health care fraud; authorities said she had pretended to be a psychologist. When ProPublica brought this to her attention, Ligon said she had been vindicated but did not supply supporting documentation.

Correction, May 12, 2021: This story originally misstated when short-term plans were limited to three months. It was an Obama administration rule change, not part of the Affordable Care Act.

Correction, April 30, 2021: This story originally misstated that the final bill removed language requiring NICA to act “in a manner that promotes and protects the health and best interests of children.” That language remains in the bill sent to the governor.

Correction, April 1, 2021: This story originally misidentified the activities of the Texas Impact Foundation. It conducted a review of the Texas shelter system, it does not operate any shelters.

Correction, March 31, 2021: This story originally misstated the honor awarded to retired four-star Army Gen. John Keane. It was the Medal of Freedom, not the Medal of Honor.

Correction, March 17, 2021: This story originally mischaracterized that the number of apprehended border crossers “spiked” in 1994, because the number of such crossers was higher in the immediately preceding years.

Correction, March 16, 2021: This story originally misstated the field in which UCLA’s Cecilia Menjívar specializes. She is a sociologist, not an anthropologist.