Reporter | Producer
I am a reporter and audio producer based in my hometown of Los Angeles. I've worked in television and radio newsrooms, and as a journalism educator at UC Santa Barbara. In 2019, I produced a documentary on Gun Violence Restraining Orders as a USC Center for Health Journalism fellow. My 2020 Data Fellowship project will look at panic gun buying in California since the state’s shelter-in-place order went into effect in 2020.
But piecemeal and limited data on guns still poses real reporting challenges.
This program was produced by Monica Lopez as part of a project of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Data Fellowship
This year saw upticks in California gun sales around the time of the stay-at-home order and when demonstrations in support of Black Lives Matter swept the country.
There are some states that do not require people with domestic violence convictions to surrender their firearms or prohibit them from possessing a gun. California does.
This story was produced as a project for the 2019 California Fellowship.
It has been five years since the 2014 Isla Vista shooting and the subsequent passage of California’s Gun Violence Restraining Orders bill. But since then, gun restraining orders have been reportedly underused. Why?
