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Latest Fact-Checks In Public Safety

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Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
stated on March 31, 2015 in a news report:
Delta has had the most animal deaths among U.S. carriers in the past five years
Half-True
By April Hunt • April 29, 2015
Georgia Department of Transportation
Georgia Department of Transportation
stated on April 23, 2015 in state DOT road signs:
Distracted driving such as texting behind the wheel is behind a rise in traffic deaths on Georgia roadways this year.
True
By April Hunt • April 28, 2015
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on April 2, 2015 in a Florida House judiciary committee hearing:
"You know how many children in the history of the United States have died in a fire (at school)? Zero."
False
By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • April 6, 2015
Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
stated on February 20, 2015 in a panel on "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"Not a single unarmed white person has been shot by the police" in New York in about 45 years.
False
By Katie Sanders • April 1, 2015
Young, Gifted and Black Coalition
Young, Gifted and Black Coalition
stated on January 9, 2015 in an open letter:
"Black people are eight times more likely to be arrested than white people" in Madison.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 9, 2015
Lee May
Lee May
stated on January 22, 2015 in the 2015 State of the County address:
DeKalb County has graduated five police academies and three fire academies to help reach its ambitious hiring goals in both departments.
Mostly True
By April Hunt • February 9, 2015
Nationwide
Nationwide
stated on February 1, 2015 in an ad during the Super Bowl:
"The No. 1 cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • February 2, 2015
Georgia Department of Transportation
Georgia Department of Transportation
stated on January 24, 2015 in overhead sign on I-85 South:
"GEORGIA ROADWAY FATALITIES THIS YEAR: 59 PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY"  
True
By Nancy Badertscher • February 2, 2015
Patrick Lynch
Patrick Lynch
stated on November 24, 2014 in a newspaper commentary:
Exposure to the electromagnetic fields from power lines "has been associated with childhood leukemia and other diseases."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 2, 2015
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on December 10, 2014 in a recent report:
Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.
Mostly False
By April Hunt • December 19, 2014
L.C.
L.C. "Buster" Evans
stated on November 12, 2014 in in a press release:
"It has been many years, if ever, since an inmate has completed his or her high school diploma while incarcerated in a state correctional facility for adults."
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • December 16, 2014
Charles
Charles "Chuck" Spahos
stated on December 3, 2014 in a joint legislative hearing:
When Colorado  eased its medical marijuana laws, fatal accidents involving pot-using drivers soared while overall traffic fatalities decreased.
Half-True
By April Hunt • December 15, 2014
Richard Saslaw
Richard Saslaw
stated on November 24, 2014 in a presentation.:
Female students at UVA "have a 20 percent chance of being sexually assaulted."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • December 8, 2014
Sloan Roach
Sloan Roach
stated on November 6, 2014 in a television interview:
Georgia has led the nation in student fatalities caused by motorists illegally passing stopped school buses.
True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • November 11, 2014
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 12, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
"We were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 12, 2014
Morgan Brittany
Morgan Brittany
stated on October 7, 2014 in an article on the WND website:
"According to a government supplier of emergency products, the Disaster Assistance Response Team was told to be prepared to be activated in the month of October for an outbreak of Ebola."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 8, 2014
Jorge Elorza
Jorge Elorza
stated on September 30, 2014 in a debate:
"In the last six years of Cianci’s administration violent crime was down in the United States. It was down in the region. It was down in Rhode Island. But it was up in Providence."  
Mostly True
By Alex Kuffner • October 6, 2014
Jorge Elorza
Jorge Elorza
stated on September 30, 2014 in a Providence Journal-WPRI debate:
"We have a retiree that is collecting a $17,000 paycheck a month . . . tax free."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 5, 2014
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on September 8, 2014 in a campaign commercial:
Of the 98 top oxycodone-dispensing doctors who used to live in Florida, "today, there are none."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • September 16, 2014
Edward Flynn
Edward Flynn
stated on August 20, 2014 in an interview:
In 2012, there were nearly 12.2 million arrests and only 410 "uses of deadly force" by police in the United States.
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • August 29, 2014
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