While officials touted similarities between a new police reform plan and the defunct DOJ consent decree, a Courier Journal analysis found differences.

After 13 years, the consent decree placed on the New Orleans Police Department by the Department of Justice might be coming to an end. A gradual end.

Consent decrees guide reform within a city's police department at a high cost to taxpayers. Credit: WHAS11 News Department of Justice logo over Louisville, Kentucky skyline.

The US Department of Justice dropped its consent decree against the Louisville Metro Police Department, but police reform will continue as promised.

Should consent decree end? Ford’s and Howell’s comments are among hundreds received by U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, who signed the consent decree in 2013 and has since overseen it, on ...

Omnicom and Interpublic said they would not direct their clients’ advertising away from media platforms because of the ...

A shake-up in the U.S. Department of Justice has cast uncertainty over the future of the sustainment period of the NOPD's federal consent decree. Community advocates warn that the DOJ’s ...

Oklahoma’s mental health agency is under intense scrutiny after missing a key consent decree deadline meant to improve ...

A consent decree is a federal, legally bound agreement used to mandate reforms within a city or agency. Louisville and the U.S. Department of Justice agreed in principle to one back in March 2023 ...

The Minneapolis Police Department is no longer under federal oversight after a judge ruled on Tuesday to dismiss a proposed consent decree "with prejudice," meaning it can't be filed again.

RICHMOND — Virginia has made enough progress in improving services for people with developmental disabilities that a federal judge this week ended a Justice Department consent decree the state ...

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 ...