The NRA's big money comes to campaigns through two political action committees.

Trump Watch: Florida is a project to collect and curate Florida documents related to President Trump, as well as his companies and properties, his family, and his family’s companies and properties.

In Florida, 1.7 million are disenfranchised due to felony convictions.

Contamination from septic tanks threatens one of the most biodiverse waterways in North America.

Florida's climate change denial was years in the making

Florida earned a score of 61 (D-), tying it for 30th among 50 in the ranking and assessment of state government accountability and transparency by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity.

Análisis concluye que se encausa a pocos traficantes sexuales.

A statewide analysis by FCIR, in collaboration with WFOR/CBS Miami, found that efforts in the state to investigate and prosecute sex traffickers have yielded few results.

This report is produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project involving top college journalism students across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

The organization is funded primarily by fossil fuel energy companies, including Koch Industries and ExxonMobil.

An Italian company that sells surveillance software is negotiating to provide a Florida police agency with spyware technology that infiltrates phones and computers, according to emails leaked this week.

The record budget cuts are most evident in Florida’s most populous counties -- Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Duval, Orange and Pinellas -- which together will absorb more than $164 million in cuts to programs and infrastructure specifically intended for those counties.

The documents provided so far indicate that Cabinet officials communicated about FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey's ouster and replacement.

An FCIR analysis shows racial disparities exist throughout Florida.

A former Colombian drug trafficker spent decades working undercover for the United States. Now, the government informant says he faces deportation, which could prove deadly.

Millions in political donations from Florida utilities help keep solar panels off rooftops

Trevor Aaronson of FCIR reveals in The Intercept how confidential FBI documents provide a rare glimpse inside a counterterrorism sting operation.

State environmental officials ordered not to use the terms “climate change” or “global warming” in any government communications, emails, or reports, according to former employees, consultants, volunteers and records.

In a court filing, a woman identified as Jane Doe #3 alleges that well-known criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, were involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s international sex ring.

FCIR is making available Jeb Bush's email archive in a reader-friendly, searchable format.

After being convicted of child molestation and rape, Robert Childs became an FBI informant. His trail ended in America’s southernmost city.

Court records and emails reviewed by FCIR show how a foundation and a law firm make money off the Sunshine law.

Over the last decade, Florida has shed thousands of state jobs and it is evident throughout a host of state agencies that these staff reductions have prevented Florida’s government from doing its job effectively.

An analysis by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting shows that the toll lane projects began thanks to state-funded reports produced by a think tank funded in part by toll lane developers.

Unlike cases of fraud or identity theft, ATM violent crimes are largely under-reported because nobody tracks them. Not the FBI, the police or the banking industry.

Dr. Evan Zimmer has been indicted for racketeering, convicted separately with the misdemeanors offenses of drunk driving and soliciting a prostitute. Something he’s also managed to do: to hold on to his medical license.

Will Weatherford hasn't disclosed his relationship with a company that has received money from Florida’s state-run insurance company.

As hardline politics in Miami dominate debate about Cuba, Tampa looks to capitalize on Florida’s communist neighbor.

When the state of Florida handed over incentive funds of $3 million to airline AirTran in 2008 for a new systems-operations center, the deal included a caveat: a public announcement of AirTran’s featly to Florida.

An FCIR analysis of state data shows that 25 companies awarded millions in Florida economic incentives receive millions more in state contractor payments.

The for-profit online educator knew of teacher certification problems in Florida for years.

Lax regulations on safety equipment and few mandates for formal boating safety education have made the Sunshine State’s world-famous waters hazardous.

In January 2011, when the FBI looked into the alleged Boston Marathon bomber and dismissed him as a potential threat, agents in the Boston field office pursued another person they suspected could be a terrorist.

In the last decade, gun murders in Florida have surged 38 percent. Experts are divided over the cause.

FCIR Associate Director Trevor Aaronson's new book documents how the FBI has built a vast network of informants to infiltrate Muslim communities and, in some cases, cultivate phony terrorist plots.

Accused of being a CIA creation, Sanchez describes how "irreversible change" is coming to the island nation.

A year after George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Central Florida, gun control is at the center of national debate. But Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law isn't part of the discussion.

Florida’s K-12 public education system has graduated hundreds of thousands of students in the past decade who couldn’t read, write or solve math problems well enough to take some college-level courses.

He joined Brothers to the Rescue and worked as an FBI informant. Then he betrayed everyone, revealing himself as a Cuban spy.

Big Sugar spends big to protect a price support system that costs consumers about $2 billion every year in increased food costs.

Voter's Edge Florida is a nonpartisan source of information about this year's constitutional amendments.

Gov. Rick Scott and Florida’s Republican-led legislature have become the national vanguard for testing the boundaries of accepted constitutional protections.

The U.S. Postal Service refuses to investigate a suspicious package from Yemen that spilled chemicals at an Orlando facility and caused an employee's debilitating illness.

An FCIR analysis of data on child poverty, homelessness and subsidized lunches shows how much poorer Florida has become since the Great Recession.

The governor's claims of success are premature, even inaccurate, according to a Florida Center for Investigative Reporting examination.

State fund bolsters companies' profits while Florida drivers continue to pay.

The Obama administration continues to deport Haitians despite knowing many will be illegally jailed and risk cholera exposure upon arrival.

The EPA’s Facility Watch List names the sites in Florida that federal environmental regulators have classified as "high-priority violators" of the Clean Air Act.

The EPA’s Facility Watch List names the sites in Florida that federal environmental regulators have classified as "high-priority violators" of the Clean Air Act.

After burning through stimulus money, Florida's public school systems must learn difficult financial lessons.

The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting identified the state's ZIP codes with the most foreclosures per square mile.

Despite deaths and safety violations, Florida companies qualify as federally designated safe workplaces.

Even when bail bond agents track down fugitives who have fled abroad and offer to pay the costs of extraditing them, there’s little evidence prosecutors are pursuing them.

Sen. Joe Negron, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, has discussed the possibility of cutting health care by as much as $1.5 billion, with $500 million squeezed from mental health. That’s two-thirds of the current mental health budget in Florida.

Gov. Rick Scott has been in office less than two months. Yet talk of recalling him has already begun.

The U.S. government has deported thousands of non-criminal immigrants living in Florida through a program designed to round up violent offenders.

With no government regulations, online high schools can be costly pursuits.

Florida's congressional delegation used a behind-the-scenes process known as 'lettermarking' to bring home federal stimulus money.