The Department of Public Works has reported a sanitary sewer overflow near Lawina Road and Westchester Road in West Baltimore ...

Seattle has filed to end a federal consent decree imposed on the city's police department following a 2012 investigation that ...

A Louisiana law that creates criminal penalties for local law enforcement officers who do not fully cooperate with federal ...

The Internal Revenue Service’s proposed consent decree with religious organizations to allow churches to speak about ...

In return, the White House would restore some of the $400 million in federal research funding it canceled, according to ...

Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the city of Seattle has filed for federal court approval to terminate the consent decree ...

Police Consent Decrees Are Coming Back — But They Might Not Make Sense Anymore The Justice Department is getting ready to bring back consent decrees, the feds' main tools to force reform in a ...

Peoria residents are advised to avoid full-body contact with the Illinois River downstream from Detweiller Marina due to a ...

Consent decrees have been used in other cities, like Baltimore, Cleveland and New Orleans and have proven effective. In New Orleans, residents' approval rating of the police department grew from ...

Seattle Mayor Harrell seeks to end federal oversight of the police after reforming crowd management policies. SEATTLE — ...

Mayor Harrell files for court approval to terminate the Seattle police consent decree and revise crowd management policies.

Still, the consent decree is almost always the government’s most potent tool for reforming law enforcement agencies. By and large, experts say, consent decrees work, at least for as long as the ...