Police in Ohio’s capital will be limited in how they can use force against protesters and will have to display officers’ names on their riot gear under changes being made to city law. Columbus City Council approved the changes Monday. …
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. …
