Steve Miller: State Rep. Carl Zimmermann, D-Dunedin, is tinkering with a seedy industry that relies on the First Amendment with a bill, HB677, which takes on the mug shot sector.

The nonprofit news organization’s headquarters is now located in the School of Communication at the University of Miami.

In his new book, Trevor Aaronson found reason to question whether U.S. law enforcement is creating the very enemy the nation fears.

NBC 6 South Florida will partner with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting to produce more local, in-depth investigations.

Mc Nelly Torres joined Miami New Times editor Chuck Strouse and Miami Herald reporter Patricia Mazzei on the weekly radio talk show.

Catch up on the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting’s journalism in 2012, including stories about Rick Scott, Cuban spies, education privatization, Trayvon Martin and more.

Join us on Wed., Dec. 19, at 4 p.m. to speak with Sarah Gonzalez of StateImpact Florida and Mc Nelly Torres of FCIR about their series on remedial education.

Fifty-two individual donors supported nonprofit investigative journalism in Florida during a Dec. 12 fundraiser.

For 24 hours starting at midnight on Wednesday, December 12 — or 12/12/12 — the Miami Foundation is encouraging civic-minded people statewide and worldwide to donate to nonprofit and charitable organizations that operate in Miami. FCIR is among these participating nonprofits.

The absentee and early votes were cast by 38 percent of Florida’s 12 million registered voters.