Scraping PACER to track habeas filings

MaryJo Webster is data editor at the Minnesota Star Tribune. She joins Alberto, Scott and Simon to talk about her team’s ongoing coverage of federal immigration troops deployed in Minnesota. They discuss analyzing data in a breaking news environment, and what reporters in other places can learn from the Star Tribune’s approach.

Subscribe to the Minnesota Star Tribune to read more of their coverage.

Work mentioned in the episode:

• Homeland Security presence in Minnesota dwarfs Twin Cities’ largest police forces

• Wave of immigrants file lawsuits to fight ICE detention

• The Trump administration calls them the ‘worst of the worst.’ Here’s what we found.

• Deportation Data Project

• TRAC immigration records

• Data Mindset for Editors course

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