Kevin Rector is a state and national politics reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He joined The Times in 2020 and previously covered the Los Angeles Police Department, state and federal courts and other legal affairs. He has written extensively about the LGBTQ+ community, and helped lead the paper’s Our Queerest Century project in 2024. Before The Times, Rector worked at the Baltimore Sun for eight years, where he was a police and investigative reporter and part of a team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in local reporting. He also was part of a Sun team that was named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting, and part of a Times team that won the 2023 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. He is from Maryland.
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