It's been 10 years since the city of Cleveland entered into a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice to reform ...

Federal Monitor Karl Racine has been overseeing it for the last two years. He says he’s seen significant progress, but more work is needed.

Karl Racine says Cleveland police have implemented key polices mandated in the decree. Now, his team is assessing them in depth, with the edict's future in question.

The looming agreement to reform LMPD was at the center of a community conversation known as The Bishop’s Table on Friday.

Today, we are at a crossroads. With the federal government freezing civil rights litigation and reconsidering consent decrees under the Trump administration, Louisville's opportunity to transform ...

This will "test the elasticity of the constitutional protections," he says. Officials in the Trump Justice Department have ordered a temporary freeze on any ongoing cases being litigated by the ...

The town of Randolph implemented a "residency clause" which requires its police officers to reside in Randolph while serving in the police force. About seven years ago, Randolph’s town leadership ...

Trump last week has put a pause on all pending environmental litigation and halts all ongoing consent decrees, which could potentially affect the City of Jackson's water and sewer systems.

An executive order signed by President Donald J. Trump last week has put a pause on all pending environmental litigation and halts all ongoing consent decrees, which could potentially affect the City ...

The Biden Justice Department opened a dozen such “pattern or practice” investigations into police departments across the country, but some consent decrees reached in the waning days of the ...

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 consent decree, sometimes called a settlement, was always unlikely with the investigation ending just over a month ahead of President Donald Trump's inauguration. Those legal agreements usually ...