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Bee's EMT probe wins award
Bee Staff
Published 12:00 am PDT Saturday, September 29, 2007
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B2
Bee reporter Andrew McIntosh's series on troubled emergency responders has been awarded a first place for daily investigative journalism by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
McIntosh's investigation, which ran in January and February, revealed how lax oversight had failed to adequately detect theft, substance abuse and falsified training records among paramedics and emergency medical technicians.
In their comments about the stories, the judges commended McIntosh, saying that "Working from a tip about missing morphine vials, reporter Andrew McIntosh used public record act requests and appeals to build a database of incidents that far surpassed anything created by the state's own oversight agency."
The series led to internal reforms at that agency, the Emergency Medical Services Agency, and legislation to require California's 70,000 emergency medical technicians to undergo mandatory criminal background checks.
That legislation passed and awaits the governor's signature.
To read the original series and follow-up stories online, go to www.sacbee.com/paramedics.
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