Chicago Police Department officials agreed to revise proposed new rules and prohibit officers from searching vehicles based on the smell of raw cannabis, a coalition of reform groups told the federal ...

At a court hearing, Snelling criticized a plan to allow the Chicago Police Department to issue 30-minute curfews even though he defended the ordinance in a Sun-Times interview last week.

The five-hour hearing focused on questions about whether Chicago Police Department brass and officers violated the city’s Welcoming City ordinance, which prohibits all city employees from assisting ...

Raoul’s brief, filed in the Illinois Appellate Court, argued that moving hearings behind closed doors would undermine both the state’s consent decree with the city and public confidence in CPD.

Settlements for police-related incidents have become routine and increasingly expensive. Here’s how Chicago can fix the system.

The 30-minute “snap curfew” was “not something that I asked for or that I need,” Snelling testified in a court hearing with the judge overseeing the federal consent decree mandating ...

Chicago’s consent decree with the state of Illinois was approved in 2019 and remains in place. The DOJ moves last month have “no direct impact” on the Chicago decree, an ACLU of Illinois spokesperson ...

A review Tuesday of the City of Fort Smith's consent decree work assessing and fixing hundreds of miles of its sewer system ...

Minneapolis police consent decree reforms to be implemented despite dismissal Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued an executive order on Tuesday instructing the city to fully implement all reforms ...

The first report from Senior Monitor Wendy Still found that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has failed to comply with the ...