Cities where Breonna Taylor, George Floyd were killed vow to stay firm on police reform – with or without Trump
After President Trump ordered a temporary freeze on civil rights litigation, the future of the DOJ's consent decrees with ...
Family claims NJ DOC failures led to son's suicide at Northern State Prison
Justice Lassiter committed suicide in March 2023. His family has filed a lawsuit against the state, DOC commissioner and ...
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Police Consent Decrees at Stake as Trump Transforms DOJ
As the DOJ freezes civil rights investigations, two pending consent decrees are thrown into doubt. Will they go ahead without ...
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Trump stopped a type of police reform that affects LMPD. It's about race. | Opinion
The order from Trump — an order we all suspected would come down — leaves in question whether the consent decree between the city of Louisville and the Department of Justice sitting on a ...
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Louisville and Minneapolis say police will honor reform agreements even if Justice Department backs out
The Biden Justice Department opened a dozen such “pattern or practice” investigations into police departments across the country, but some consent decrees reached in the waning days of the ...
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How will Trump's DOJ putting civil rights litigation on hold affect Memphis' cases?
A consent decree, sometimes called a settlement, was always unlikely with the investigation ending just over a month ahead of President Donald Trump's inauguration. Those legal agreements usually ...