Supreme Court Upholds Police Qualified Immunity in Two Cases October 20, 2021 By Andrew G. Simpson The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of police officers accused of using excessive force in two cases involving...
Senators Still Working on Bipartisan Federal Police Reform Bill July 26, 2021 By Laura Litvan U.S. Senator Tim Scott said he’s hopeful an agreement on police reform will be reached but vowed that any final...
Louisiana State Police Cling to Crash Theory in Black Man’s Fatal Arrest June 29, 2021 By Jim Mustian More than a year and a half after Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video brutalizing Black motorist...
North Carolina Sheriff’s Office Settles Excessive Force Claims for $6M June 21, 2021 A North Carolina sheriff’s office has agreed to a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit in which six families accused...
Georgia City Offers $350K to Settle Claim Over Police Takedown of Wrong Man June 14, 2021 By Russ Bynum Officials of a Georgia city have offered a $350,000 legal settlement to a Black man injured last year when a...
Wrongful Death Suit Against 3 Georgia Police Officers to Proceed June 14, 2021 COLUMBUS, Ga. — A federal judge says he isn’t halting a wrongful death lawsuit against three Columbus police officers, despite...
New Mexico Lawmakers Propose Cap on Damages in Police Accountability Bill February 9, 2021 By Morgan Lee A bill that would strip police officers of immunity from civil rights lawsuits in state court is being rewritten to...
Louisville Agrees to Pay Breonna Taylor’s Family $12 Million, Enact Police Reforms September 16, 2020 By Fola Akinnibi Louisville, Kentucky agreed to pay the family of Breonna Taylor a $12 million settlement and enact a series of reforms...
Insurers Exploring ‘New World’ of Police Officer Professional Liability July 24, 2020 By Suzanne Barlyn and Alwyn Scott U.S. insurers and brokers are starting to craft professional liability coverage for police officers, spurred on by signs that policymakers...
German Officials Seize Server With U.S. Police Files Stolen in Data Breach July 10, 2020 By Frank Bajak At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of...