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

"From Louisville Metro’s perspective, the proposed Consent Decree is an effective mechanism to keep the reform process on ...

The decree would settle a class-action lawsuit from defendants, who, in some cases, spent more time in jail awaiting competency restoration treatment than any sentence they would have received for ...

Louisiana wants a US court to dissolve a consent decree requiring the city of New Orleans to adopt some “sanctuary” policies ...

It's been 10 years since the city of Cleveland entered into a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice to reform ...

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 ...

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 ...