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Ed Williams

Ed Williams, a Searchlight investigative reporter, covers child welfare, social justice and other issues. In 2022, he was selected for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network to produce stories about abuses in the foster care system and the devastating impacts on children. Before joining Searchlight, Ed was a reporter in both the United States and Latin America, working for print, digital and radio outlets, including seven years in public radio. His numerous journalism awards include a 2020 First Amendment award and 2019 local accountability reporting award from the News Leaders Association. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.


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Posted inChild & Family Welfare

Records without a trace

Avatar photo by Ed Williams May 21, 2021February 16, 2023

Records show CYFD destroyed communications on COVID response, other official documents. Employees who complained were fired.

Posted inSecrecy and Sacred Cows: Turmoil at CYFD

Agency underground

Avatar photo by Ed Williams April 26, 2021February 16, 2023

In the state department charged with child welfare, leadership and staff avoid a paper trail with encrypted messaging.

Posted inFeatured, Health, Politics

Pine Ridge or Bust

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Wufei Yu and Ed Williams March 22, 2021July 10, 2022

Even as Dineh Benally’s illegal cannabis operations in the Navajo Nation are under ongoing investigation, he’s looking for more opportunities across Indian Country.

Posted inFeatured, Health, Politics

Busy signal

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ike Swetlitz and Ed Williams March 11, 2021July 10, 2022

New Mexico’s unemployment office is struggling to answer millions of calls for help.

Posted inFeatured

Fields of green

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Wufei Yu December 21, 2020February 2, 2023

COVID is pushing thousands of Chinese immigrant workers into the marijuana business—sometimes leading to exploitation and labor trafficking

Posted inCarlsbad, Carlsbad Part 2, Coronavirus, Featured, Hitting Home

Deep red and feeling blue

Avatar photo by Adrian Hedden and Ed Williams November 25, 2020July 10, 2022

Nine months into the pandemic, Carlsbad residents are divided, defiant and in search of a silver lining.

Posted inChaos and cannabis, Tribal Affairs

Uprooted

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Don J. Usner November 11, 2020July 10, 2022

A police raid near Shiprock has all but ended an illicit cannabis-growing operation

Posted inChaos and cannabis, Featured, Tribal Affairs

Strangers in a foreign land

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Wufei Yu October 29, 2020July 10, 2022

A massive marijuana bust in Farmington represents just a sliver of an ongoing operation on Navajo lands that has now drawn federal investigators

Posted inFeatured

Chaos and cannabis

Avatar photo by Ed Williams September 23, 2020November 14, 2022

A massive hemp empire is accused of growing illegal marijuana and sowing violence on the Navajo Nation

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Health

‘An anything-goes situation’

Avatar photo by Ed Williams July 9, 2020July 10, 2022

Nursing homes profit from pandemic with no risk of accountability

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