Reposted from WBAL-TV (NBC) Baltimore LAUREL, Md. — A Prince George’s County man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Laurel, the Laurel Police Department, its chief and two of its officers after the man says he was subjected to…
Reprint from Fox 5 DC It is a bizarre and troubling claim. Allan Sergeant said he was strip searched by a Laurel police officer in the middle of a parking lot in front of a CVS pharmacy. It started as…
Calls settlement’s police reforms “a model for other law enforcement agencies” After nearly 13 years of litigation, a federal judge has approved an unprecedented settlement between the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) and the Justice Department and the Department…
Excerpt from The Washington Post Ending a 13-year legal struggle, a federal judge gave final approval Monday to a settlement in which the federal government agreed to new terms of engagement with demonstrators in the nation’s capital and agreed to…
Reprint from The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia’s Office of Police Complaints issued a scathing report this week on how officers with the Metropolitan Police Department continually fail to identify themselves to citizens. Since 2006, the office fielded about 400 complaints on…
Reprint from DCist.com Thirteen years after nearly 400 protesters were arrested in a mass sweep at Pershing Park, a proposed $2.2 million settlement would reform how the U.S. Park Police handles protests. In September of 2002, hundreds of people demonstrated during…
From Democracy Now The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has announced an unprecedented settlement with the Obama administration to change the way the U.S. Park Police conduct mass arrests. The deal follows 12 years of litigation over the arrests of nearly…