The latest assessment by the independent monitor has found the Chicago Police Department continues to make incremental ...

Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish ...

Republican lawmakers asked for another extension on time to review rules that would codify treatment inside Wisconsin youth ...

A consent decree is one of the federal government’s most aggressive tools for reining in police departments found to be ...

In an opinion last week, the Maryland Appellate Court rejected arguments that a decades-old consent decree over state funding ...

Minneapolis and the Justice Department are still negotiating a federal consent decree to legally reform the Minneapolis ...

Louisville’s mayor wouldn’t commit to signing the consent decree with the DOJ before the inauguration of President-elect ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed cuts to the police department in specific areas may violate a consent decree forged ...

That part is the federal consent decree — which the city is still negotiating with the Department of Justice — given President-Elect Donald Trump's track record surrounding this kind of action.

Officials who were involved in negotiating and implementing the reforms laid out in the police department's 2019 consent ...

A consent decree project is also on the directors' agenda. The 2016 Sanitary Sewer Assessment Remedial Measures, Sub-Basin ...

CPD’s overall compliance with the consent decree — a set of reforms spurred by the 2014 killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a former CPD officer — again ticked up in the first six ...