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

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has taken a critical step toward ending more than a decade of federal oversight ...

The New Orleans Police Department can begin ending its longstanding federal oversight, a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a ...

Federal oversight continues as NOPD enters two-year sustainment period, signaling progress but maintaining accountability.

The days after Hurricane Katrina were dark ones for New Orleans, and in particular for its police department, some members of ...

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that ...

In a joint statement, Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill said, “Now is the time to end NOPD’s consent ...

Morgan said that NOPD must fully comply with the sustainment plan for two years before the department is officially released from the consent decree. The consent decree was a result of a 2011 report ...

The federal judge overseeing the New Orleans Police Department’s decade-long consent decree is poised to make a pivotal ...

U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan will rule Jan. 8 on a joint motion by the NOPD and the Department of Justice to enter a period of less intense monitoring, after years of rectifying department ...

A judge says the New Orleans Police Department can begin the process of ending longstanding federal oversight. U.S. District ...