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While officials touted similarities between a new police reform plan and the defunct DOJ consent decree, a Courier Journal analysis found differences.
The Justice Department said Wednesday it is moving to drop police reform agreements reached with the cities of Louisville, Kentucky and Minneapolis.
Metro Council has approved a resolution to endorse the recommendations from the U.S. Department of Justice for reform within Louisville Metro Police Department.
Mayor Craig Greenberg unveiled a plan titled "Louisville's consent decree," which will guide police reforms in the absence of ...
The court-enforceable agreements were born out of probes ... ABC News reached out to officials in Minneapolis and Louisville for additional comment. The DOJ's Civil Rights Division is also ...
The Justice Department, city of Louisville and its police department reached an agreement in principle toward a consent decree. Four Louisville Metro Police Department officers faced federal ...
The Department of Justice said Wednesday it would be dropping police reform agreements reached with the Minneapolis and Louisville police in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
UNDER THIS NEW AGREEMENT, THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REVERSED COURSE ON LOUISVILLE’S FEDERAL CONSENT DECREE. THE DECISION CAME MONTHS INTO THE PROCESS TO ADDRESS CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ...
The previous order was a court-enforced agreement that was legally binding ... A portion of the DOJ decree that Louisville kept is referred to consistently as the "principal section," defined ...
Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, announced the decision days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.