City officials have eyed Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' links to the White House as stepping stones to address Fort Smith's ...

Idaho doctors are free to refer patients out of state for abortions without concern for criminal prosecution thanks to an ...

Idaho, which has a near-total ban on abortion, agreed not to prosecute or take away licenses of doctors who refer patients ...

Seattle has filed to end a federal consent decree imposed on the city's police department following a 2012 investigation that ...

A federal judge has permanently banned Idaho from prosecuting physicians who refer patients to legal abortions out-of-state.

Consent decrees are one of the few federal tools to encourage systemic reform in police departments, McJunkin said. Since 2009, there have been at least 16 departments that have entered into ...

“This consent decree has been in place for over seven years, cost millions of dollars, and failed to make our state’s largest city safer or improve officer retention,” Herrell wrote.

Armour & Co., which held that the scope of consent decrees could only be discerned from within the four corners of the actual decree and they are not enforceable by those who are not parties to them.

The consent decree agreed to in May 2015 provided for an oversight commission and an emphasis on “bias-free policing.” Chicago Demonstrators confront police during a protest in November 2015 ...

A consent decree is a court-enforced agreement between parties — in this case, the DOJ and LMPD along with city government — that includes steps to correct issues, ...