The first report from Senior Monitor Wendy Still found that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has failed to comply with the ...

Virginia officials have agreed not to fully enforce a 2020 law banning conversion therapy for minors as part of an agreement ...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued an executive order on Tuesday instructing the city to fully implement all reforms outlined in a consent decree weeks after its dismissal.On May 27, a federal judge ...

Still, the consent decree is almost always the government’s most potent tool for reforming law enforcement agencies. By and large, experts say, consent decrees work, at least for as long as the ...

The Carr Commission has entered into a Consent Decree with Sinclair and the shared services partners that absolves them of ...

Consent decrees allowing the Department of Justice to oversee and resolve issues around unconstitutional policing were introduced in 1994, when Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law ...

A Henrico County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday ordered that licensed counselors be allowed to engage underage clients in a ...

This is state-licensed mental health professionals that want to abuse their position of trust with LGBTQ youth into trying to ...

Consent decrees have been used in other cities, like Baltimore, Cleveland and New Orleans and have proven effective. In New Orleans, residents' approval rating of the police department grew from ...

There was lots of talk this week about Facebook's 2011 “consent decree” with the FTC. What's it mean? And why should you care? We break it down.