Katey Rusch

Katey Rusch is records request manager and data journalist for Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program. Her work focuses on police misconduct. In 2025, Katey and Casey Smith published “Right to Remain Secret” in the San Francisco Chronicle, a series developed with the IRP over five years. The series — about so-called “clean records agreements” that obscure police misconduct — has won a Polk Award, Selden Ring, Goldsmith Prize, and Investigative Reporters and Editors award. Before joining the Investigative Reporting Program, Katey spent a decade as an on-air reporter and writer in local television newsrooms, including stops in Seattle, Phoenix, Bakersfield, California, Duluth, and Topeka. As a video journalist, Katey won numerous awards, including several Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow award for a series about fracking and the potential energy in shale oil reserves. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and Berkeley Journalism.