This Is Reno Radio

A federal judge has rejected the city of Reno's effort to keep police body camera footage confidential in an excessive force lawsuit. Meanwhile, Washoe County is considering new agritourism rules that could help small farms welcome visitors, and Reno residents criticize the city's $22 million Axon police technology contract. We are Bob Conrad and Kristen Hackbarth, editors of This Is Reno, and in today’s episode we are discussing police transparency, local government decisions, economic devel...

This Is Reno editors Bob Conrad and Kristen Hackbarth are back with the latest in Reno news covering local government, lawsuits and elections. We break down Reno’s proposed $22 million police technology contract, questions in the Ward 4 council race and the latest local court disputes. We examine what Reno’s planned departure from Flock Safety could mean for surveillance, review claims about Councilmember Meghan Ebert’s attendance and discuss property records involving challenger Eddie Gomez....

We are back. After a late-summer break, Kristen and Bob return with a packed roundup of Reno-area news. This episode covers our public records litigation against the city of Reno, an election integrity complaint involving mayoral candidate and Reno City Council member Kathleen Taylor, the ongoing NV Energy lawsuit involving proposed data centers and new developments in the GPS tracking lawsuit involving Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve and former Washoe County Commissioner Vaughn Hartung. The...

Kristen Hackbarth and Bob Conrad, editors of This Is Reno, discuss the massive wildfire evacuations in Reno’s North Valleys and why we believe emergency communication remains a serious problem for residents and local news media. We also dig into Doral Academy’s proposed South Reno campus, a state audit raising concerns about charter school oversight, an ethics complaint involving former Washoe County Manager Eric Brown and new developments in the Jason Killinger facial-recognition lawsuit.&nb...

This week on the This Is Reno podcast, we — editors Kristen Hackbarth and Bob Conrad — dig into several investigations and controversies unfolding across Reno and Washoe County. We discuss the federal indictment of former Washoe County Department of Alternative Sentencing chief Justin Roper, developments in the Anna Scott murder case, wildfire prediction markets, the increasingly contentious debate over Reno-area data centers, another leadership shakeup at the Washoe County Library Syst...