After 12 years under a sprawling, court-enforced reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the plan is a major step toward independence.

A federal judge has announced her decision on the New Orleans Police Department's yearslong consent decree. Judge Susie Morgan granted the NOPD a two-year sustainment period, signaling the beginning of the end of the consent decree.

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that it can police itself, a judge ruled Tuesday.

In a joint statement, Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill said, “Now is the time to end NOPD’s consent decree and return control of policing to the City—the brave men and women who serve in the NOPD deserve recognition for the hard work and commitment to this community that they have demonstrated over the last decade.”

In a federal courtroom packed with NOPD's top brass and community members, Judge Susie Morgan heard the New Orleans Police Department's plans for a sustainment period. The City of New Orleans and the Department of Justice filed a joint motion to begin the sustainment period.

The days after Hurricane Katrina were dark ones for New Orleans, and in particular for its police department, some members of which were later found to have committed horrific crimes

a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a request from the city and the Justice Department to wind down the monitoring program. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan said the police department has ...

The New Orleans Police Department can begin ending its longstanding federal oversight, a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a request from the city and the

A judge says the New Orleans Police Department can begin the process of ending longstanding federal oversight. U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan’s ruling Tuesday came in response to a request

Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman chosen to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the DOJ 'a bittersweet moment.'

So far this year, the most consequential publisher in America is the United States government. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the Justice Department posted online a grim PDF with a title that defies all marketing advice: “Final Report of the Special Counsel Under 28 C.F.R. § 600.8.”