When the U.S. Department of Justice announced last year the results of its nearly two-year "pattern or practice" investigation, they also stated that Louisville Metro and the city's police department ...

The Supreme Court on Friday (October 30) reiterated that there's no bar to file an appeal against the consent decree by a ...

"The work that has gone into going above and beyond the scope of the consent decree cannot be overstated" — Todd Chamberlain ...

A judge said the Memphis Police Department may have violated a 1978 consent decree limiting surveillance of activists. The ACLU of Tennessee was granted its demand for the city to turn over evidence ...

Under consent decrees, federal judges oversee state and local administration of federal statutes by virtue of agreements between state and local officials on the one hand and plaintiffs on the other.

After more than seven years of reform efforts, the Chicago Police Department has reached preliminary compliance with almost all paragraphs of the ongoing federal consent decree, according ...

The Chicago Police Department made “significant strides” last year toward full compliance with the federal consent decree, even as the department was tasked with handling protests of the Democratic ...

A federal judge on Thursday terminated two sections of the consent decree governing the Baltimore Police Department, the first time sections of the 17-section agreement have been declared fulfilled.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland discusses the findings of a multi-year investigation by the Department of Justice which found that the Minneapolis Police Department engaged in a wide range of ...

Ferguson has been under a consent decree since 2016, two years after a Ferguson police officer killed Michael Brown Jr. and a ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --A federal judge ended a 23-year consent decree of the Oakland, Calif., police department Tuesday. The consent decree was the longest federal oversight of a police department in U.S.