An NYPD inspector has been tapped to become the department’s First Amendment protest supervisor — a newly created position mandated by a federal legal settlement forcing police to overhaul how ...

Suffolk County’s $225,000 settlement provides a striking counterpoint to the anti-sanctuary policies that have recently taken ...

A TLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Alpharetta police will have to undergo First Amendment training as part of a lawsuit settlement with a veteran who was detained for holding a “God Bless the ...

The new agreement sensibly sets out a tiered framework for police response to so-called First Amendment activity (FAA), including a minimal presence during peaceful protests and the deployment of ...

The lawsuit claims that by refusing to provide certain information about police misconduct settlements, the city has violated the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights and violated Virginia Freedom ...

In its opinion in Overbey v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, the Fourth Circuit held that non-disparagement clauses in settlement of police misconduct claims violates the First Amendment ...

A recent settlement by the city of Minneapolis to journalists who were attacked and injured by police while covering the George Floyd protests acts as an important ...

A recent settlement by the city of Minneapolis to journalists who were attacked and injured by police while covering the George Floyd protests acts as an important ...

Officers in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department will undergo training on First Amendment rights under a mid-October settlement with four journalists who were arrested during the Ferguson ...

Philadelphia has reached an agreement to pay a total of $9.25 million to more than 200 people who were injured during the police response to protests following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020.

As part of a settlement finalized last month, the city paid each plaintiff $17,910 — a sum representing the year of the First Amendment was ratified, 1791 — and attorneys’ fees.

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–The state’s policing oversight commission must pay $30,000 under a settlement agreement reached with law enforcement groups, comply with the Massachusetts open meeting law ...