Spokane Confidential is a local investigative podcast, YouTube channel, website, and social media newsroom built to examine the decisions shaping Spokane, before the public is left to live with their consequences.We investigate the stories people know matter but rarely see pursued to their foundations: public records, contracts, lawsuits, funding trails, political relationships, nonprofit networks, school districts, government agencies, and legislation moving through Olympia.We follow the money. We connect the dots. We name the people and institutions involved when the evidence supports it. Spokane Confidential does not begin with a conclusion and work backward. We begin with questions, establish the facts, and follow the evidence wherever it leads.

Our purpose is not to replace one controlled narrative with another. It is to uncover the chain of decisions behind the conditions Spokane residents see every day, and to distinguish documented fact from political theater.

WE INVESTIGATE THE DECISIONS BEHIND THE CONSEQUENCES Cities do not change overnight. The crises Spokane confronts today are the cumulative result of policy decisions, legislation, funding priorities, court rulings, bureaucratic choices, and institutional influence.We ask where the money is going, what taxpayers are receiving for it, who designed and funded the policies, what was promised, what happened after those policies took effect, who benefited, and who is accountable for the results.Our reporting will examine Spokane City Hall, Spokane County, Olympia, school districts, nonprofits, courts, prosecutors, public agencies, and the systems governing homelessness, addiction, housing, healthcare, public safety, education, and child welfare.MORE THAN INSTITUTIONS The people living with these decisions are not statistics.We will tell the stories of business owners, parents, victims, teachers, first responders, people in recovery, people experiencing homelessness, whistleblowers, and those working inside systems the public rarely sees.We will expose failure. We will also identify the people and programs producing measurable results, and ask why successful approaches are not being expanded.ORIGINAL INVESTIGATIONS. FIRSTHAND VOICES. PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY.Spokane Confidential Investigations: Document-driven reporting into public money, policy, power, and institutional conduct.Trey on the Streets: Firsthand conversations with people living the realities policymakers often discuss from a distance.Spokane Reality Check: A rigorous examination of claims repeated so often they have become accepted as fact.Straight Outta Spokane: A sharp look at the week’s most revealing, absurd, or consequential public moment.TELL US WHAT WE SHOULD INVESTIGATEImportant stories often begin with someone who knows the public has not been told the full truth.If you have documents, firsthand knowledge, a lead, or a story Spokane needs to understand, contact the Spokane Confidential Tip Line:(509) 818-0226Source confidentiality matters. When necessary, identities and identifying details will be protected.For too long, the public has been the last to know. Spokane Confidential exists to change that.