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DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

No Docket | No Court

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 (collectively, “PhxPD”). DOJ initiated the investigation under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which prohibits state and local governments from engaging in a pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers that deprives individuals of rights protected by the Constitution or federal law. T…
POLICING
State of California v. County of Kern

BCV-20-102971 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 22, 2020

This case involved a state-led lawsuit against a county sheriff’s office accused of unconstitutional policing. On December 22, 2020, the Attorney General of California filed this lawsuit against the County of Kern and the Kern County Sheriff’s Office (“KCSO”) in the Kern County Superior Court of California, alleging that the KCSO engaged in a pattern or practice of violating state and federal law. The California Constitution and state law empowered the Attorney General to file a civil action to…
POLICING
California v. Stockton Unified School District

34-2019-00248766 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 2019

Closed Date: April 11, 2024

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On January 22, 2019, the California Department of Justice ("DOJ") entered into a settlement agreement with the Stockton Unified School District ("District") and its police department to address system-wide violations of civil and constitutional rights of African American and Latino students and students with disabilities. The agreement resulted from a comprehensive investigation conducted by the DOJ into the law enforcement referral pract…
POLICING
State of California v. City of Bakersfield

BCV-21-101928 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2021

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On August 23, 2021, the California Department of Justice ("DOJ") entered into a stipulated judgment with the City of Bakersfield and the Bakersfield Police Department ("BPD"), regarding BPD's policies and practices. The stipulated judgment resulted from a investigation by DOJ to improve BPD's practices, such as requiring body-worn cameras, volunteering to collect data early under the Racial and Identity Profiling Act, and implementing a c…
POLICING
Hinson v. Martin

5:17-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2017

Closed Date: July 25, 2023

On February 10, 2017, a man, acting pro se, filed a civil rights complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the DeSoto Parish Sheriff and a sheriff’s deputy. The case centered on an incident which occurred in February 2016, when sheriff's deputies in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, received information that the man was wanted on a felony arrest warrant for armed robbery involving a firearm. The officer named in the suit spotted the plaint…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of the Yonkers Police Department

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In 2007, the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, initiated a civil investigation of the policies and practices of the Yonkers, New York Police Department (YPD), pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141 and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. § 3789d. On June 9, 2009, the…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Drewniak v. C.B.P.

1:20-cv-00852 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2020

Closed Date: May 24, 2023

After being stopped and detained without a warrant at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoint 90 miles from the Canadian border, the plaintiff brought this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire on August 11, 2020, challenging CBP's practice of using checkpoints for general crime control. The plaintiff sued CBP, U.S. Border Patrol, the Deputy Chief Border Patrol Agent for the Swanton Sector (which policed some counties of New Hampshire), and the two a…
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United States v. City of Cleveland

1:15-cv-01046 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 25, 2015

In March 2013, following a series of highly-publicized use-of-force incidents involving the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP), the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, that focused on the CDP's use of force, including deadly force. This was the second investigation conducted by the DOJ into the CDP's practices in a little over ten years, as the DOJ had prev…
POLICING
DOJ Investigation of Liberty County Sheriff's Office

171-19-24 | No Court

This action is a memorandum of understanding resulting from a complaint received by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), alleging that the (Delaware) Liberty County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) conducted a racially discriminatory traffic stop. On May 18, 2022, the DOJ received a complaint from Delaware State University, alleging that LCSO discriminated against its hired driver, athletic coach, and students on the basis of race when it conducted a traffic stop of a bus chartered by the scho…