The latest assessment by the independent monitor has found the Chicago Police Department continues to make incremental ...

Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish ...

Republican lawmakers asked for another extension on time to review rules that would codify treatment inside Wisconsin youth ...

In an opinion last week, the Maryland Appellate Court rejected arguments that a decades-old consent decree over state funding ...

Minneapolis and the Justice Department are still negotiating a federal consent decree to legally reform the Minneapolis ...

CPD’s overall compliance with the consent decree — a set of reforms spurred by the 2014 killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a former CPD officer — again ticked up in the first six months of 2024 ...

The independent monitor assessing the city’s compliance with a federal consent decree issued a dire warning Tuesday as proposed budget cuts once again loom over the Chicago Police Department’s Office ...

That part is the federal consent decree — which the city is still negotiating with the Department of Justice — given President-Elect Donald Trump's track record surrounding this kind of action.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has called on a federal judge to end the 12-year-old consent decree governing the New ...

Officers in Trenton have caused the deaths of innocent people, a Justice Department report found, citing a fatality that ...

The stark warning from independent monitor Maggie Hickey was included in a new progress report showing that CPD has reached ...

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg would not commit on Tuesday to signing a consent decree on police reforms with the U.S.