The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached with Minneapolis and Louisville to implement policing reforms in the wake of the killings of George Floyd ...

Federal oversight of the New Orleans Police Department, which began nearly 13 years ago under a wide-ranging federal consent decree, has been terminated, following an informal “final proceeding” in ...

LSU NEWS AT FOUR STARTS RIGHT NOW. A HISTORIC SHIFT IN NEW ORLEANS POLICING MET WITH MIXED REACTIONS. JUDGE SUSIE MORGAN SIGNED AN ORDER TODAY ENDING FEDERAL OVERSIGHT OF THE NOPD. WDSU REPORTER ...

Louisville’s “Community Commitment” police reform plan omits some provisions from the consent decree negotiated with the U.S. Department of Justice. Some changes are to provisions meant to address ...

A move by the Trump administration to scrap the federal consent decree requiring reforms to Minneapolis Police Department has been condemned by some city and state leaders. The Department of Justice ...

A federal judge has ordered the dismissal of the police reform consent decree negotiated between Louisville and the U.S. Department of Justice in 2024.

The mother of Breonna Taylor blamed Louisville’s mayor for “dragging his feet” in consent decree negotiations, hours after the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would drop the agreement. “This ...

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