Federal oversight of the New Orleans Police Department, which began nearly 13 years ago under a wide-ranging federal consent decree, has been terminated, following an informal “final proceeding” in ...

This Wednesday and Thursday, U.S. District Judge Robert Dow Jr. will hold the first and only public hearing on the Chicago Police Department Consent Decree, which he's overseeing. From 9:30 a.m. to 3 ...

U.S. District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal is giving Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton the opportunity to argue that new state laws could invalidate a first-of-its-kind bail reform in Harris County. In a ...

FOR YOU IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. BUT ALSO BREAKING HERE AT HOME. THE NOPD CONSENT DECREE IS FINALLY COMING TO AN END AFTER MORE THAN 12 YEARS. THE FEDERAL JUDGE OVERSEEING THOSE REFORMS NOW AN AGREEMENT ...

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached with Minneapolis and Louisville to implement policing reforms in the wake of the killings of George Floyd ...

LSU NEWS AT FOUR STARTS RIGHT NOW. A HISTORIC SHIFT IN NEW ORLEANS POLICING MET WITH MIXED REACTIONS. JUDGE SUSIE MORGAN SIGNED AN ORDER TODAY ENDING FEDERAL OVERSIGHT OF THE NOPD. WDSU REPORTER ...

Louisville’s “Community Commitment” police reform plan omits some provisions from the consent decree negotiated with the U.S. Department of Justice. Some changes are to provisions meant to address ...

A federal judge has dismissed Louisville's consent decree, which was aimed at reforming Louisville Metro Police Department. Louisville signed a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice in ...

(The Center Square) – The Trump administration has scaled back federal oversight of police departments, but Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul remains a strong supporter of the consent decree in ...

The Baltimore City Police Department is one step closer to being in full compliance with the federal consent decree. The Consent Decree Monitoring Team and a federal judge found the department is in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Multiple federal consent decrees designed to fix troubled police departments across the U.S. have been terminated, but Cleveland’s arrangement has emerged as an ongoing success story ...

FORT SMITH -- A review Tuesday of the City of Fort Smith's consent decree work assessing and fixing hundreds of miles of its sewer system infrastructure is just the first of many to come, city leaders ...