Rachel Polansky

Rachel Polansky is a 3x Edward R. Murrow Award-winning, Emmy-nominated investigative reporter at 3News WKYC in Cleveland, Ohio.

Before moving to Cleveland, Rachel spent three and a half years reporting in Southwest Florida, uncovering fraud and corruption, while tracking your tax dollars at the NBC affiliate, NBC2.

Rachel become a journalist to make a difference in her community. She holds the powerful accountable, she asks the tough questions and ultimately, she gets results.

The NBC2 Investigators are getting results. More than two years after we began reporting on contractor fraud in Southwest Florida — and exposed issues in the way the current construction laws were written — a local lawmaker teamed up with our state attorney to re-write the statute.

While it’s federally recommended that Florida schools test for radon every five years, the NBC2 Investigators uncover that’s not happening in Southwest Florida. One week after our investigation aired, a lawmaker called for more radon testing in schools.

Police arrest two phony panhandlers posing as a non-profit, after an NBC2 Investigation. They are two of several people who stand at Southwest Florida intersections asking for money, claiming to be members of New Life Christian Ministries.