Maia Nehme
Staff Reporter
maia_nehme | maia.nehme@yale.edu
Maia Nehme covers cops, courts and Latine communities for the News. She previously covered housing and homelessness. Originally from Washington, D.C., she is a sophomore in Benjamin Franklin College majoring in History.
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MAIA NEHME
Advocates push for strip search elimination, body scanners in prisons

Since 2023, criminal justice advocates have urged the state legislature to fund body scanning machines in state prisons, cutting down on the need for strip searches.

February 20, 2025

MAIA NEHME & LILY BELLE POLING
“Endemic” home break-ins trigger increased city security measures

In the wake of a harshly cold winter, a recent wave of intrusions by homeless individuals into New Haven-owned properties has raised safety concerns.

February 19, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ & MAIA NEHME
Fair Haven residents revive dining out tradition amid threats to immigrants

Alders and New Haveners gathered at Salsa’s for a community dinner to support local businesses whose clientele have been affected by federal orders threatening immigrants.

February 18, 2025

JOSIE REICH & MAIA NEHME
Yale bides its time responding to Trump immigration policies

Compared to this point in Trump’s last term, Yale has been quieter about threats to its international students and scholars. Administrators argue that policy changes will likely have limited impacts on most of Yale’s immigrant and international community.

February 14, 2025

MAIA NEHME
“Cutting off a lifeline”: Lamont axes free tablets, messaging in prisons

Gov. Ned Lamont proposed eliminating free tablets, texts and emails for Connecticut’s incarcerated population at his biennial budget address last Wednesday.

February 12, 2025

LILY BELLE POLING & MAIA NEHME
New Haven sues Trump administration for ‘illegal federal overreach’ on sanctuary cities

Mayor Justin Elicker announced New Haven would join three West Coast jurisdictions in a lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect welcoming and sanctuary jurisdictions from overreach.

February 10, 2025

MAIA NEHME & CHRISTINA LEE
Record-high registration, funds raised at annual IRIS Run for Refugees

Sunday’s 5K race was a high point for New Haven’s Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, which has weathered federal funding cuts and layoffs in the past two weeks.

February 9, 2025

MAIA NEHME & ARIELA LOPEZ
‘Gutting’ federal funding suspension sends city refugee resettlement agency scrambling

New Haven’s Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services has laid off 20 percent of its staff since the Trump administration’s Jan. 24 stop-work order.

February 6, 2025

MAIA NEHME
New Haven officer charged in Randy Cox paralysis restored to his post

Officer Oscar Diaz — who slammed on the brakes while transporting Randy Cox in a police van, leading to Cox’s paralysis — was reinstated as a police officer by order of a state board.

January 29, 2025

MAIA NEHME
Man killed, two officers injured in Grand Avenue police shootout

The Connecticut Office of the Inspector General is investigating Wednesday’s officer-involved shooting with a fatality.

January 29, 2025

ARIELA LOPEZ, MAIA NEHME, ETHAN WOLIN & LILY BELLE POLING
State, local leaders balk at Trump’s federal funding freeze

A White House budget office order to pause a litany of federal grants and loans sent New Haven recipients scrambling.

January 29, 2025