A federal judge on Tuesday placed the New Orleans Police Department under a two-year “sustainment” plan, a major step toward independence after 12 years under a sprawling, court-enforced reform ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles Police Department is finally free of federal oversight after a judge formally lifted the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Consent Decree. The Decree, ...

The Minneapolis Police may agree to court-enforced federal oversight. Experts say it can lead to improvements, though defining success can be difficult. By Shaila Dewan As demonstrations over police ...

This story has been updated to include new information. The U.S. Department of Justice's police reform agreement with Louisville Metro Government and the city's police department could be in jeopardy ...

Thirty-five years after it was first imposed, a judge has lifted a consent decree barring the Republican National Committee from pursuing “ballot security” measures. In their 1981 lawsuit to stop the ...

Asserting that he would not be “a rubber stamp,” U.S. Western District Court Judge Benjamin Beaton pressed U.S. Department of Justice and Louisville Metro Government officials on Monday over the ...

(Istanbul) – The first emergency decree under Turkey’s state of emergency is arbitrary, discriminatory, and unjustified as a response to the violent coup attempt or other public order concerns. The ...

With no end date in sight to free Cleveland's police force from federal oversight, residents and elected leaders question whether the $60 million spent so far has improved the department's ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s cabinet has reversed a martial law order in the country, just hours after he issued the surprise decree that plunged Seoul into political uncertainty and sparked ...