Sergio Hernández
Sergio Hernández is a reporter and developer on ProPublica’s news apps team.
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Sergio Hernández is a reporter and developer with ProPublica’s news apps team.
Before joining ProPublica, Hernández was a reporter and data editor at CNN, where he led efforts to develop data journalism standards and expand the use of computer-assisted reporting techniques. His work has previously appeared in Mashable, The Week, The Village Voice, Gawker and BuzzFeed. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a reporting intern and contributor for ProPublica.
ProPublica Releases New Private School Demographics Lookup
Now you can look up detailed demographic information about thousands of private schools across the country and compare them to nearby public schools.
by Sergio Hernández, Nat Lash and Ken Schwencke,
Private School Demographics
Look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.
by Sergio Hernández, Nat Lash and Brandon Roberts,
NYPD Restores Thousands of Missing Records but Removes Case Numbers From Its Discipline Database
The department restored more than 2,000 missing discipline records to its public database of uniformed officers, weeks after ProPublica revealed data reliability issues. But it also removed case numbers, making future oversight more difficult.
by Sergio Hernández,
Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools.
Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it happen.
by Jennifer Berry Hawes, photography by Sarahbeth Maney,
Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next.
The police department’s public site for tracking officers’ discipline is shockingly unreliable, a ProPublica analysis found. Cases against officers frequently vanish for days — sometimes weeks — at a time.
by Sergio Hernández,
Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Financial Disclosures
Find organizations and people that have paid the current justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
by Sergio Hernández, Alex Mierjeski, Al Shaw and Mollie Simon,
Supreme Risk
Most rights are based in statute, but dozens — such as rights to same-sex marriage, search warrants and Miranda warnings — are based on judicial rulings that the Supreme Court can overturn and that current justices have questioned some aspect of.
by Ian MacDougall and Sergio Hernández,
What Fortune 500 Companies Said After Jan. 6 vs. What They Did
A new ProPublica app tracks corporate contributions to election deniers. From GE to Boeing, here are some of the behemoths that proclaimed that they were suspending donations — then resumed giving to the very politicians they had sworn off.
by Alec MacGillis and Sergio Hernández,
Look Up Which Fortune 500 Companies Fund Election Deniers
Corporate America pledged to quit supporting lawmakers who challenged the 2020 election results. Two years later, the companies’ wallets are back open.
by Sergio Hernández, with additional reporting by Nat Lash,
Iowa Court Tosses Sentence in HIV Exposure Case
Six months after ProPublica’s story, Iowa’s highest court has thrown out Nick Rhoades’ 25-year prison sentence for criminal transmission of HIV.
by Sergio Hernández,