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The teen got a concussion. The school got a pass. by Will Craft  An employee at a Utah treatment center slammed a teen to the floor leaving him with a concussion that went untreated for a week. There was a video, an upset mother who sought justice and an investigator who wrote that the facility “clearly” mishandled the situation. But the state agency that oversees youth treatment programs in Utah took no action back in 2016, and that was typical at the time. At another treatment center, a therapist sexually abused a patient. A teen even murdered an employee at one facility. But Utah’s Office of Licensing didn’t threaten to shut the facilities down or demand changes to prevent problems from recurring. It didn’t cite a single rule violation in any of those cases. That hands-off approach was the norm until just two years ago, records show. In fact, until recently, the state almost never found fault with the way treatment programs handled incidents of abuse, neglect, harm, mistreatment, fraud or exploitation, according to an analysis by APM Reports. ▻ Read the story At the height of pandemic, Kentucky’s Democratic governor eased Covid restrictions despite mounting deaths by Ryan Van Velzer, Tom Scheck and Suhail Bhat  When Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, eased critical Covid-19 restrictions in December, more than twice as many people were dying of the virus as the public knew, and Beshear focused his messaging on an optimistic and incomplete metric that’s been questioned by top health researchers, an investigation by WFPL and APM Reports has found. ▻ Read the story |