Casey Smith

Casey Smith is a States Newsroom reporter covering Indiana policy and politics, with a focus on education, the environment and the state legislature. Casey and Katey Rusch published “Right to Remain Secret” in the San Francisco Chronicle, a series developed while they were students at with the Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley Journalism, about so-called “clean records agreements” that obscure police misconduct. The series has won a Polk Award, Selden Ring, Goldsmith Prize, and Investigative Reporters and Editors award. Before coming to California, Smith was a reporting intern at the Investigative Reporting Workshop and The Washington Post. In 2019, she joined the news and investigations teams at The Indianapolis Star as a Pulliam Fellow. Her reporting continued at the IRP, where Smith was a 2019-20 graduate research fellow under the direction of David Barstow and Geeta Anand. Smith’s work has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, National Geographic and others.