Paul Flahive
Paul Flahive is the accountability reporter for Texas Public Radio. He has worked in public media across the country, from Iowa City and Chicago to Anchorage and San Antonio.
As producer of "The Source," Paul was honored with two 2015 Lone Star Awards from the Houston Press Club — one for Best Talk Program and the other for Best Public Affairs Segment. In 2016, he was honored with an Anson Jones Award. In 2018, he was honored with the Barbara Jordan Award.
His work has been heard on NPR, Marketplace, Interfaith Voices, and elsewhere in public media.
Paul created TPR's live storytelling program, Worth Repeating.
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It reported that 41% of all mass shooters had a history of domestic violence. -
Despite rising deaths, Texas limited safety services and enshrined laws that made it harder to remove a child. -
Texas keeps public in the dark on its agencies actions or inactions in child abuse and neglect deaths -
Dozens of men, women and children from Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and other nations were found trapped in the tractor-trailer on Quintana Road in southwest San Antonio in 2022. -
More than 440 properties nationwide were listed as 'disposable.' Many—from the VA to the federal judiciary—have hundreds of workers. Two dozen in Texas include properties officed in by congressmembers, including Sen. Ted Cruz. -
The Tuesday order affects tens of thousands of children, some with no family and no legal status. -
'[They] have to believe other folks are caring for him,' one official said in instructing a staff member to put a different name down on paperwork, details court record. -
The warrants in Bexar, Atascosa and Frio counties came a week after news stories brought to light the amount of money the AG has spent on his voter integrity unit with little to show for the expense. -
Lawyers for the State of Texas on Monday tried to convince a U.S. appeals court that it should not be fined for failures in investigations of abuse and neglect of intellectually disabled children. The three-judge panel appeared to not need much convincing. -
A 13-year fight between a judge and Texas over how the state runs its foster care system is back in court on Monday. Texas wants the judge off the case and her stiff fines canceled. The case is also part of a nationwide push back on judges who force states to take specific actions — decisions that, conservatives say, are 'corrosive to federalism.' -
Multiple women have complained to the state and media about physical and sexual abuse suffered by a guard at the Lane Murray Unit in Gatesville. The state said it has no evidence of a crime or infraction. -
After 13 years, the state said Judge Janis Jack should be removed from overseeing its foster care system because she isn't 'impartial.'
