Matthew Casey
Senior Field Correspondent | [email protected]Matthew Casey, a senior field correspondent, won first place from Public Media Journalists Association for Policing the Police, an eight-part series on the civil rights review of Phoenix and its police department. He's also won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ in 2015.
Casey helped open two local bureaus. He covered immigration during the first Trump administration. Casey is creator of the podcast, Reefer Growing Madness, about the life cycle of marijuana plants. He also reported, wrote and produced the podcast Empty Seats, about the pandemic’s effect on the professional sports industry in metro Phoenix.
Before public radio, he worked for newspapers, digital media and at a television station. “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away,” Casey and a buddy rode a bus to Mexico City to cover Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first presidential bid.
Casey is a proud Spanish speaker and grateful to the immigrants who taught him while working in restaurants. When he’s not reporting for KJZZ, Casey enjoys being with his son.
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State gaming officials say the roughly $664 million bet this June was a 22% increase from the same month last year. -
A department spokesperson says the officers used force during the stop that happened around 11:30 p.m., but they did not turn on their body cameras and did not report what happened to superiors. -
The vote now happening is in a right-to-work state where employees cannot be forced to join a union or pay dues. If successful, the next step would be to negotiate a labor contract. -
In consecutive weekdays, four metro Phoenix police departments have announced internal investigations into misuse of controversial license plate readers, also known as LPRs. -
Police departments in the East and West Valley this week have unveiled internal investigations into officer misuse of AI surveillance technology used to track license plates. -
Apache Junction police say one of their own officers improperly used controversial technology known as license plate readers and is now off the force. -
Court records show that Jeremie Sowerby pleaded guilty to wire fraud and he is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court on Oct. 14. -
Union members working for CVS Pharmacies in Arizona have unanimously voted to take a step toward striking should contract negotiations fail. -
The Pinal County sheriff has told the Board of Supervisors that he won’t renew a contract with a controversial tech company when it expires in less than 60 days.
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A judge in Yavapai County has sentenced the former director of a housing charity to about 63 years in prison for white collar crime.
