Eva Parks is the producer for both NBC 5 Investigates and NBC 5 Responds As the resident watchdog, she covers a variety of issues fighting for consumers in North Texas and beyond.
Eva is right at home at NBC 5. She grew up in Richardson and is proud to call North Texas home.
As part of NBC 5 Investigates Eva helped uncover mistreatment of wounded soldiers at the Army’s Warrior Transition Units, institute change in police policy, and exposed safety concerns and corruption inside Dallas County Schools.
Eva has been nationally recognized with multiple journalism awards including a 2017 Peabody Award, five Edward R. Murrow Awards, IRE Award Finalist, two national Society of Professional Journalist awards and a National Emmy.
When she’s not covering the news, Eva enjoys hot yoga and discovering hidden trails to hike across DFW with her family.
The Latest
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How DFW could become the center of America's largest data center market
NBC 5 Investigates mapped out projects in the pipeline, pinpointing DFW communities where the next wave of data center construction could be concentrated.
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NBC 5 Investigates: Dallas makes changes to AI camera code enforcement program
The city of Dallas is making changes to its AI camera code enforcement program in the wake of an NBC 5 investigation that raised questions. The changes will address privacy protections, violation notices and “blight score” terminology used to evaluate properties as council members called for greater oversight.
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Dallas makes changes to AI camera code enforcement program following NBC 5 investigation
City officials announced changes to privacy protections, violation notices and “blight score” terminology used to evaluate properties as council members called for greater oversight.
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Dallas AI cameras catch code violations, but a fund to help homeowners sits unused
NBC 5 Investigates found that the city stopped awarding grants two years ago, even as citation revenue continued flowing into the fund.
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Dallas police overtime costs topped $6 million for World Cup, records show
Through open records requests, NBC 5 Investigates obtained Dallas police overtime records showing that during the two World Cup months, the department spent a total of more than $14 million on overtime.
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Here's what the AI cameras on Dallas trash trucks can see
The camera contractor said its system automatically blurs license plates, but NBC 5 Investigates obtained an image the city said required manual redaction after a plate was missed.
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Dallas issues first citations tied to AI code enforcement cameras
The city also sent thousands of notices to residents saying they might face future enforcement if violations are not corrected, but the city insists those notices are not “warnings.”
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Could cutting Dallas Police overtime cost taxpayers more?
NBC 5 Investigates found that 40 officers each collected more than $100,000 in overtime last year, but reducing some of the department’s biggest overtime bills could cost the city grant funding it receives.
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Councilmember, residents push back on AI ‘blight scores' given to thousands of homes
Chad West is raising concerns about whether camera-aided code enforcement could burden lower-income neighborhoods.
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Does your home have a ‘blight score'? AI cams on trash trucks look for code violations
Dallas’s new AI trash truck cameras have detected more than 21,000 potential code violations, now some homeowners have concerns
