As the DOJ freezes civil rights investigations, two pending consent decrees are thrown into doubt. Will they go ahead without ...

Newark entered a consent decree in 2016 after a United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and DOJ 2014 report found “a pattern and practice of unconstitutional policing ...

After President Trump ordered a temporary freeze on civil rights litigation, the future of the DOJ's consent decrees with ...

A New Jersey appeals court on Tuesday restored many ... A federal monitor was appointed for the Newark Police Department, and the city agreed in a 2016 consent decree with the Justice Department to ...

A major reason Minneapolis hired Brian O'Hara as police chief in 2022 was his experience implementing a consent decree in Newark, New Jersey. O'Hara noted that the city would be the first in the ...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara knows plenty about consent decrees. Before O'Hara came to Minneapolis as chief, he was in Newark, New Jersey where that city has been under a consent decree ...

O'Hara led the Newark Police Department through a similar consent decree in New Jersey before accepting the job in Minneapolis in 2022. "I think when people think of consent decrees, they look at ...

O’Hara, who previously was Public Safety Director for Newark, New Jersey, during the implementation of a federal consent decree, said that the Trump administration could intervene in the process ...