A consent decree in a class-action lawsuit brought by people judged incompetent to stand trial passed the House Appropriations and Budget Committee without dissent.

So what does our Editorial Board Roundtable think about Sen. Bernie Moreno’s attempt to get the U.S. Department of Justice to ...

The Republican’s Senate Bill 40 would ban political subdivisions from sending public funds to nonprofits that pay bail bonds ...

Santa Rita Jail seems to be emerging from a dark shadow, making reforms in the areas of mental health and the number of ...

Court-appointed monitors of Sacramento County jails say a man’s fatal overdose was one of multiple deaths in which deputies ...

President Donald Trump’s administration announced a freeze of all ongoing civil legislation, including the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) consent decree for the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) ...

The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) on behalf of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) entered into a January 16th Consent Decree (“CD”) with the operators of ...

It would be impossible to overstate the complexity of water supply management in California. Hundreds of federal, state and local agencies decree who or what is supplied with water, when and how ...

The consent decree signed between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Louisville Metro Government is not just a piece of paper. It is a moral covenant with our community, a collective commitment ...

The city of Newark, New Jersey, and its police have been under a consent decree since 2014. Her organization is part of the monitoring team that assesses how reforms are being implemented. “During the ...

At least 29 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across Southern California. Thousands of firefighters have been battling wildfires across ...