Eileen Kelley

About

Eileen Kelley is an award-winning investigative journalist with over three decades of experience uncovering critical stories in law enforcement, pension funds, child welfare, the military, education, and immigration. She is currently an investigative reporter and producer at WGCU Public Radio, covering the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Her reporting led FEMA to reverse course on a plan that would've enriched opportunists with disaster relief funds while displacing low-income residents.Previously, Kelley worked as an enterprise crime reporter at the South Florida Sun Sentinel, where her investigation exposed a culture of mismanagement in the regional emergency response system where she discovered there were thousands of 911 calls going unanswered. This included calls for help to a home that burned mostly to the ground just blocks away from a fire house and numerous calls for help for a 3-month-old boy whose father was left to watch him die.At The Florida Times-Union, she uncovered corruption in a police and fire pension fund, which led to major policy reform. As an investigative reporter in Vero Beach, Fla., Kelley proved the sheriff's office — in an effort to bolster the sheriff's public image — altered public records she had requested. Following her reports, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement determined the sheriff’s office had indeed tampered with monthly patrol line-up records and broke public record laws. Kelley specializes in investigative reporting, human-interest writing, public records research and multimedia storytelling.