A federal judge has approved a request made by the U.S. Department of Justice to pause proceedings in the consent decree ...

It is not unexpected, but the U.S. Department of Justice is requesting a pause in the new federal consent decree agreement ...

The federal government requested the review be paused 30 days to allow newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi “to ...

Metro government is asking a federal judge to approve Louisville's consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The fate of Louisville's consent decree is being delayed once again. A federal judge has approved a 30-day extension for the U.S. Department of Justice to submit additional materials. The agency ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno wants the U.S. Department of Justice to re-examine consent decrees that it has reached over the years to reform police practices in Cleveland and other ...

The first report on Minneapolis police’s reforms under a state consent decree show the department has new policies but ...

Since then, numerous cities have been forced into signing “consent decrees” that essentially turn over management of their police to outside “monitors” who too often lack a deep and ...

Wolfe was separately directed to notify Trump-appointed department leaders of any consent decrees -- court-enforceable agreements to reform police agencies -- the Biden administration reached with ...

This will "test the elasticity of the constitutional protections," he says. Officials in the Trump Justice Department have ordered a temporary freeze on any ongoing cases being litigated by the ...

About seven years ago, Randolph’s town leadership started to discuss what would happen after the expiration of a federal consent decree that required the police department to hire based on the city’s ...