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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A federal judge said she’s prepared to end the New Orleans Police Department Consent Decree, if all involved agree to it. The consent decree was enacted in 2013 after the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GOOD EVENING. I’M VICKI DORTCH, AND I’M RICK VAN HOOSE. IT’S BEEN A WEEK SINCE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ENDED ITS CONSENT DECREE WITH LOUISVILLE. BUT TODAY, SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS GATHERED DOWNTOWN ...

FORT SMITH -- A review Tuesday of the City of Fort Smith's consent decree work assessing and fixing hundreds of miles of its sewer system infrastructure is just the first of many to come, city leaders ...

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 federal judge ended the Justice Department's agreement with Kentucky officials on police reform. But some changes will continue. The post Louisville PD's pulled consent decree is latest in DOJ push ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A federal judge Wednesday dismissed the consent decree agreement between Louisville Metro government and the U.S. Department of Justice that laid out sweeping reforms of ...

LEONARDTOWN, Md. — St. Marys County commissioners approved two loan applications from the Metropolitan Commission on Jan. 13, ...