A federal judge has announced her decision on the New Orleans Police Department's yearslong consent decree. Judge Susie Morgan granted the NOPD a two-year sustainment period, signaling the beginning ...

The city’s push to end the consent decree comes alongside a formal letter from the New Orleans City Council, which objects to the Louisiana attorney general’s involvement in the case, raising legal ...

After 12 years under a sprawling, court-enforced reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the plan is a major ...

U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan is set to rule Tuesday on a plan for the New Orleans Police Department to enter a two-year "sustainment" period that marks the last phase of a federal consent decree ...

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A pivotal decision in the future of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) is expected Tuesday (Jan. 14) morning as U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan will rule on whether the ...

Morgan said she would decide if the NOPD is ready to move one step closer to ending its more than a decade-long consent decree on Tuesday at 9 a.m. Morgan recognized that some members of the ...

NOPD is now on a two-year exit ramp from a federal consent decree that brought major changes to the department over the past ...

According to the attorney general's office, taxpayers in Orleans Parish have spent millions of dollars and police have spent multiple hours in court instead of working.

The ruling marks a new chapter for the NOPD after operating under the federal consent decree for more than ten years. However, a late move by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Louisiana ...

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) ...