Opioid Settlement Reporting

Editor-Approved: Telling Complex Stories about Opioid Settlement Spending In Mississippi, where opioid settlement dollars are quietly reshaping public health policy, […]

Opioid Settlement Secrets: Digging Into Opioid Dollars with Data and FOIAs In this 30-minute webinar, data reporter for MuckRock, director

This didactic session offers tips, resources and tools you can use to break down barriers to public access to opioid settlement spending in your community and clearly present the information.

This webinar discusses how to understand potential conflicts of interest present on the task forces responsible for spending or recommending spending of opioid settlement money.

This webinar features the Tribal Principles, which offer culturally-relevant, Indigenous-centered guidance for tribal leaders to consider when creating their spending plans for use of the tribal opioid settlements.

In this webinar, Christine Minhee and Kate Boulton review with journalists the state-level resources they have created at OpioidSettlementTracker.com and Vital Strategies to help journalists track how opioid settlement funds are being distributed in order to hold public officials accountable for how it’s being spent.

This 30-minute discussion features the basics of the opioid settlement funds and brainstorm potential stories journalists can begin working on today.