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The first report from Senior Monitor Wendy Still found that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has failed to comply with the ...
Seattle has filed to end a federal consent decree imposed on the city's police department following a 2012 investigation that ...
A consent decree could last years or decades, ... For example, police can attend nonviolent protests with active body cameras, but that footage cannot be saved or used to keep files on protesters.
Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the city of Seattle has filed for federal court approval to terminate the consent decree ...
Louisville has signed a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, which will serve to implement major reforms for the Louisville Metro Police Department.Mayor Craig Greenberg called the ...
Venetian Resort Las Vegas allegedly violated Title VII by discriminating against employees of diverse faiths, the EEOC said ...
Seattle entered a settlement agreement in 2012 with the U.S. Department of Justice following an investigation that estimated ...
The Minneapolis City Council Tuesday pulled back a directive that would have called on City Attorney Kristyn Anderson’s ...
For example, Seattle was under a consent decree from 2012 to 2023. ...
The report used a violent traffic stop in 2021 involving a Black Aurora man and the shooting death of Kilyn Lewis as real-life examples in which policing once failed, but the decree mandates would ...
Metro leaders developed their own consent decree, but activists and family member of Breonna Taylor say there's concerns about what they say is a lack of community involvement in the plan.
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 ...