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DOJ Investigation of Beverly Hills Police Department

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The DOJ opened one of its first “pattern-or-practice” investigations on August 12, 1996, to investigate the Beverly Hills Police Department. It closed this investigation November 11, 2000, without a consent decree or other agreement and without publishing any specific findings. The DOJ stated that it found no constitutional violations while investigating. News media made a public records request for information related to the investigation, but the DOJ said that it could not produce any documen…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

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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 (“Phoenix”). According to the announcement, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, intended to examine whether the City and the Department had a pattern or practice of violating the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of its citizens, the 1964 Civil Rights Act,…
PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ Investigation of Minnesota Department of Corrections

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On September 30, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had concluded an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Corrections (MNDOC). It found MNDOC violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide adequate benefits for disabled incarcerated persons in their post-secondary education GED programs. While MNDOC generally allowed disabled individuals to join the GED program, they unlawfully denied them an equal opportunity to participate b…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CODING IN PROCESS
EPA Investigation of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Health

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In response to administrative complaints filed with the agency (Nos. 01R-22-R6, 02R-22-R6, and 04R-22-R6), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened an investigation into the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and the Louisiana Department of Health's (LDH) on April 6, 2022 via its authority under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and EPA's nondiscrimination regulations. The complaints alleged that LDEQ's implementation of its air pollution control permit program …
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Robbins v. National Aeronautics & Space Administration

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Filed Date: 2013

Case Ongoing

African American and Asian American employees of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration filed a class action lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2013 under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Plaintiffs alleged that NASA discriminated against African American and Asian American employees in salary grades 13-15 (generally professionals and mid-level managers). The case was initially assigned to Administrative Judge Laurence Gallagher. Progress in th…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
CRIPA Investigation of Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections

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Filed Date: Dec. 31, 2020

Case Ongoing

On December 3, 2020, the Special Litigation Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (DOJ) announced that it had opened a statewide investigation into the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections’ (LDOC) prisoner release practices and policies. DOJ’s announcement followed multiple lawsuits, including Humphrey v. LeBlanc, and a 2019 State Auditor’s report alleging that the state routinely keeps prisoners in jail past their release dates for days, weeks, and …
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation of the Boyd County Detention Center

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Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 1, 2016, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division notified Boyd County officials of its intent to conduct an investigation of the Boyd County Detention Center pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The DOJ indicated that the purpose of the investigation was to determine whether prisoners are adequately protected from the use of excessive force, whether prisoners are subject to an invasion of their bodily privacy …
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Providence Police Department

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Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2002

Closed Date: March 26, 2008

On January 28, 2000, Sgt. Cornel Young Jr., a Black Providence police officer, was shot dead by two white officers who mistook him for a suspect when he was off duty and came to their aid. The two officers were cleared of misconduct in the shooting. Prompted by this event, the Department of Justice initiated a pattern-or-practice investigation into the Providence Police Department on December 11, 2002. DOJ closed its investigation on March 26, 2008, without further enforcement action. The mothe…
PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Four Mississippi Prisons

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Filed Date: 2020

Case Ongoing

On February 5, 2020, the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division announced an investigation pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) into conditions in four Mississippi prisons: the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman), Southern Mississippi Correctional Institute, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, and the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility. The Justice Department stated that it will investigate whether "the Mississippi Department of Correctio…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of the Indiana State Board of Nursing

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Filed Date: March 25, 2022

Case Ongoing

In this out-of-court matter, brought under Title II of the the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the U.S. Justice Department found on March 25, 2022, that the Indiana State Board of Nursing violated the ADA by prohibiting nurses who take medication to treat Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)--such as methadone and buprenorphine (Suboxone)--from participating in the Indiana State Nursing Assistance Program. The program assists in rehabilitating and monitoring nurses with substance use disorders, and…