U.S. District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal is giving Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton the opportunity to argue that new state laws could invalidate a first-of-its-kind bail reform in Harris County. In a ...

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The Justice Department announced it will abandon negotiations for court-approved settlements with police departments in two U.S. cities despite previous findings that authorities regularly violated ...

More than four years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched a wide-ranging investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department that led to the signing of a police reform consent decree, ...

CROSS. THE DONATION LINE IS NOW OPEN, FOLKS. PLUS ENDING THE CONSENT DECREE, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL NO LONGER OVERSEE EFFORTS TO REFORM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. LOUISVILLE’S FEDERAL CONSENT DECREE ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Justice Department announced Wednesday ...

Federal oversight of police reform in Louisville isn’t happening as the Department of Justice (DOJ) moves to end ongoing consent decrees. Consent decrees are legally binding agreements that require a ...

FOR YOU IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. BUT ALSO BREAKING HERE AT HOME. THE NOPD CONSENT DECREE IS FINALLY COMING TO AN END AFTER MORE THAN 12 YEARS. THE FEDERAL JUDGE OVERSEEING THOSE REFORMS NOW AN AGREEMENT ...

AS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ABANDONS FEDERAL CONSENT DECREES, LOUISVILLE LEADERS ARE VOWING TO PICK UP WHERE THEY LEFT OFF. BUT WHAT DOES THAT REALLY LOOK LIKE? AND HOW WILL THE CITY IMPLEMENT REFORM?

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 ...