Farrah Anderson
Investigative Health ReporterFarrah Anderson was an investigative health reporter at WFYI and Side Effects Public Media.
Before WFYI she worked at Invisible Institute producing police accountability investigations in collaboration with Illinois Public Media and as a fellow with the Investigative Reporting Workshop in Washington, DC.
Farrah has published work with The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Intercept, The Appeal, Wisconsin Watch, and St. Louis Public Radio. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Central Illinois native.
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Voters in each of Marion County's nine townships this November will elect a small claims court constable. The only contested races are in Center and Perry townships. -
A psychiatric hospital chain based in Indiana says a 2022 leadership change brought major improvements. But WFYI found allegations of a patient death, abuse and serious safety violations continued — while state oversight agencies rarely acted. -
The Marion County Sheriff's Office is suing the Indiana Department of Correction to force faster prison transfers after the number of sentenced people stuck in the county jail topped 258. -
Indiana officials say competency restoration cases have hit a breaking point, filling psychiatric beds and leaving little room for other patients. -
The Metropolitan Development Commission voted 6-1 Wednesday to approve a scaled-back data center campus on Indianapolis' east side in Warren Township. -
An Indianapolis City-County Council committee advanced a data center moratorium through 2027 after months of community pressure, sending the measure to the full council for an Aug. 10 vote. -
Indiana lawmakers and the federal government are tightening SNAP rules at the same time, and public health officials warn the combined effect will push more people off the program. -
The announcement from Indianapolis City-County Council President Maggie Lewis comes after months of protests at city meetings over data centers and calls from residents to pause approvals. -
DC Blox is scaling back its proposed east side data center campus — fewer buildings and generators, a bigger buffer — just before the Metropolitan Development Commission's July 15 vote. -
As Indiana courts large-scale data center development, nearly a third of its counties have enacted moratoriums, bans or new ordinances.
