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POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of Providence Police Department

No Court

Filed Date: 2002

Closed Date: March 26, 2008

None
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

No Docket | No Court

Filed Date: 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)On August 5, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department. According to the announcement, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, will examine whether the City and the Department violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment of citizens or the 1964 Civil Rights Act an…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
CRIPA Investigation of Cumberland County Jail

No Court

Filed Date: 2018

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On June 15, 2018, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into conditions of confinement at the Cumberland County Jail (“CCJ”), located in Bridgeton, New Jersey. The investigation, which is pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, was conducted jointly with the United States’ Attorney’s Office in New Jersey. On 1/14/21, the DOJ notified the County that we have concluded there is reason…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
CODING IN PROCESS
CRIPA Investigation of Alameda County

No Court

Filed Date: 2021

Case Ongoing

In April 2021, the Department notified Alameda County, California, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, and Alameda Health System that there is reasonable cause to believe that the County’s use of institutional settings to provide mental health services to adults with mental health disabilities violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and that the conditions at Santa Rita Jail violate the Constitution and the ADA. Specifically, the Department’s investigation found that the County fa…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ ADA Investigation of Colorado's Long-Term Care System

No Court

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2018

Case Ongoing

This case concerned a DOJ investigation into Colorado's use of nursing homes to provide long-term care for persons with physical disabilities. Specifically, the investigation looked into the state’s compliance with the ADA as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999), which required public entities to administer services to individuals with disabilities in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs. The DOJ opened its investigation on November 20, 201…
EDUCATION
Department of Education OCR Title IX Investigation of Pitzer College

09-12-2151 | No Court

Filed Date: March 19, 2012

Closed Date: 2014

On March 19, 2012, the United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received a complaint alleging that the defendant had violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Specifically, the complaint alleged that Pitzer College failed to adequately respond to an internal complaint that a male student had sexually assaulted the complainant. The complaint also alleged that the college did not adequately respond when the student complained of retaliation by other studen…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Chicago Police Department

No Court

Filed Date: 2015

Closed Date: 2017

In the aftermath of the November 2015 release of a police video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, sixteen times first as he walked away and later as he lay in the middle of the road, citizens called for a federal investigation into the Chicago Police Department (CPD). On December 7, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening an investigation into CPD under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.…
PRISON CONDITIONS
In re Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services / Wright Petition II

12-00375 | No Court

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a matter before the Federal Communications Commission, dealing with high charges for prisoner phone calls. It is a continuation of the FCC matter CC Docket 96-128 regarding the First and Alternative Wright Petitions (PC-DC-0027). In that matter, the FCC had received significant comment on the First and Alternative Wright Petitions, including an ICS provider proposal containing cost information to support their proposed rate methodology and rate levels for ICS. The FCC opened a new doc…

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services / Wright Petition II

Dec. 28, 2012

Comments of Wright, et al., re Notice of Proposed Rule Making

In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services / Wright Petition II

March 25, 2013

Bazelon Declaration in Support of Comments of Wright, et. al., re Notice of Proposed Rule Making

In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services / Wright Petition II

March 25, 2013

Bazelon Declaration in Support of Reply Comments of Wright, et. al., re Notice of Proposed Rule Making

In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services / Wright Petition II

April 22, 2013

Reply Comments of Wright, et. al., re Notice of Proposed Rule Making

In the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services / Wright Petition II

April 22, 2013

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NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of the Reginald P. White Nursing Facility, MS

Never Filed | No Court

Filed Date: Nov. 16, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 24, 2010

Pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") conducted an investigation of conditions at the Reginald P. White Nursing Facility ("RWNF"), a public nursing home facility in Mississippi, evidently operated by one of the state's counties. The investigation resulted in a findings letter being sent to the governor of Mississippi on May 20, 2003. The letter stated that in August 2002, D…
PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ ADA investigation of Huron Valley Women's Prison

NA | No Court

Filed Date: 2010

Closed Date: 2016

This out-of-court investigation of the Huron Valley Correctional Facility was launched in September 2010 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section. It has examined the treatment of prisoners with disabilities at the all-women's facility, including their medical treatment, mental health treatment, suicide prevention efforts, and nursing care. Huron Valley is a Michigan prison in Ypsilanti Michigan. The DOJ began the investigation by visitin…