The U.S. Department of Justice requested a 30-day extension to file materials related to the Louisville police reform consent decree a judge requested. U.S. District Judge Benjamin Beaton ...

A consent decree drafted to improve mental health services in Oklahoma county jails has cleared its first legislative hurdle.

This story has been updated to include new information. The U.S. Department of Justice's police reform agreement with Louisville Metro Government and the city's police department could be in ...

However, it’s unclear that this supposed loophole would apply in consent decrees like Cleveland’s 111-page 2015 police-use-of-force decree-- adopted pursuant to a federal law that specifically ...

LOUISVILLE’S MORE THAN 200 PAGE HISTORIC CONSENT DECREE, DESIGNED TO REFORM POLICING WITHIN LMPD, WAS SIGNED LAST MONTH BY THE MAYOR AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. BUT NOW THAT AGREEMENT IS IN ...

A judge found the Baltimore Police Department in “full and effective compliance” with three more pillars of the consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday, a mark of ...

WBFF (Baltimore, MD) — During the first federal consent decree hearing of 2025, Judge James Bredar approved a joint motion for compliance within three sections of the consent decree. The City ...

“Regardless of the Trump administration’s announcement, we will be moving forward with the terms outlined in the consent decree,” the mayor said in a statement. “Our city worked hard on ...