The consent decree monitor's latest report was released Thursday. The consent decree was put into place after Elijah McClain's death to address bias in policing.

The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office has been under a consent decree for over a decade, with no timetable on when it might end ...

It takes six months to fill a job in city government — if you’re lucky. Writers Conor Durkin and Richard Day break down the ...

A federal judge said she was prepared to release Newark from a 2016 consent decree imposed after investigators found the city’s police routinely used excessive force and conducted unconstitutional ...

The consent decree, entered in Tulsa federal court, deals with the treatment of people judged mentally incompetent for adjudication.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee demanded Friday that the Memphis Police Department comply with a Civil Rights-era consent decree limiting their ability to watch ...

A federal judge heard evidence from both sides as the Rankin County School District fights to end a consent decree over school desegregation.For the past 60 years, the district has been under a ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced this spring it would discontinue investigations of police departments, including Seattle’s, that were accused of civil rights violations and terminate the court ...

After 13 years, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) consent decree over the Seattle Police Department (SPD) came to an end Wednesday. While SPD celebrated the closure of a more than decade-long ...

The Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) federal consent decree is set to end after 13 years. Judge James L. Robart ruled on Wednesday that hard work was done at all levels, making the department a ...

SEATTLE — It took 13 years to achieve the reforms required to end a pattern of excessive force and the appearance of biased policing, but the Seattle Police Department (SPD) will no longer be subject ...

SEATTLE — The City of Seattle and the Seattle Police Department have reached a pivotal moment. For more than 13 years, Seattle has been under a federal consent decree due to a pattern of ...