Officials in Kentucky’s largest city have approved the formation of a police oversight board. The Louisville Metro Council voted last month on the ordinance that will create the 11-member Civilian Review and Accountability Board, and an inspector general that will …
The family of a man who died after being arrested by Valley City, N.D., police in 2018 has reached a settlement in a civil lawsuit against the city, Barnes County and two police officers. The family of 72-year-old Warren Lindvold …
The company that owned a Cleveland, Ohio, bowling alley has settled part of a lawsuit brought by the family of a man who was fatally shot there by an off-duty police officer in 2018. Court documents show the company that …
The 2014 shooting death of black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted angry protests and trained a national spotlight on a perceived lack of police accountability for violent encounters with the public. Since then, …
The diverse opponents of qualified immunity have thrown their weight behind at least five appeals now awaiting the Supreme Court’s attention, each considered a potential means of removing or softening the doctrine. One of them is the case of Alexander …
Dog bites man may not be a news story — but in nine western states, it’s grounds for a constitutional case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has allowed a lawsuit by a woman who fell asleep …
South Carolina taxpayers are spending millions of dollars a year addressing alleged misdeeds by law officers or detention officials including excessive force and civil rights violations. The Greenville News reports the state last year spent $17 million to defend officers …
Minnesota’s Stearns County’s insurance trust has paid $350,000 to a man who was shot in the back by a sheriff’s lieutenant during a drug bust. John Albert Sorensen had sued the county and now-retired Lt. David McLaughlin, alleging excessive force. …
