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Jamie Kalven

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 16, 2024 by Wehwalt (talk) 19:13, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kalven in 2016
Kalven in 2016

Jamie Kalven (born c. 1949) is an American journalist, author, human rights activist, and community organizer based in Chicago, Illinois. He founded the Invisible Institute, a non-profit journalism organization based in Chicago's South Side. Kalven has been referred to as a "guerrilla journalist" by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel. His work in the city has included reporting on police misconduct and poor conditions of public housing. Kalven won a landmark court case – Kalven v. City of Chicago – which held that police misconduct records are public information under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Thereafter, the Institute became a hub for information related to police misconduct in Chicago. In the aftermath of the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald by a police officer, Kalven received accolades for obtaining a copy of an autopsy report showing that McDonald had been shot 16 times execution-style, contradicting official reports of a single gunshot wound. (Full article...)