Bills to ban police use of chokeholds and tear gas, create a state database of officer misconduct, require cops to stop the misconduct of other officers and report it, and a new task force to recommend further legislation all headed to the governor’s desk Friday.
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The Minneapolis City Council took an early step toward its promised reimagining of the city’s police department Friday morning, voting unanimously in favor of a proposal to change the city charter.
Read moreThe State Troopers Fraternal Association of New Jersey sued the state in Mercer County Court, claiming the state will endanger its members if they release names of officers involved in disciplinary violations.
Read moreThe Minneapolis City Council was to vote Friday on a proposal to change the city charter to allow elimination of the city’s police department, a radical move supported by a majority of the council after George Floyd’s death, but far from assured.
Read moreSpurred by mass protests demanding an end to racism and police violence in Los Angeles County, officials from the third-largest transportation agency in the nation voted Thursday to probe transit police’s use of force standards and pursue alternatives to armed officers patrolling buses, trains and platforms.
Read moreGeorge Floyd’s death sparked international protest, rocking the consciousness of millions who watched his life evaporate under the knee of a police officer, but in the throes of national outrage and despair, the House of Representatives took up the mantle to address racial inequities in policing and passed a sweeping reform bill that is not expected to survive in the Senate.
Read moreLawmakers in Oregon advanced police accountability bills in a special session that kicked off Wednesday due in large part to pressure from nightly protests in Portland and across the state demanding an end to police violence.
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Members of the House Rules Committee spent nearly two hours Wednesday debating a Democrat-backed police reform bill named for George Floyd, as lawmakers set the stage for contentious votes this week on a range of issues that also includes statehood for Washington, D.C.
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A Los Angeles City Council committee voted unanimously Wednesday to send a package of police reform proposals to the full council for consideration, including a recommendation that police be restricted from responding to mental health emergencies and a bid to make it illegal when people make frivolous 911 calls based on racist beliefs.
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Senate Democrats blocked a controversial Republican police reform bill from being debated Wednesday, asserting it lacked the meaningful measures to stamp out police brutality disproportionately leveled on black Americans.
Read moreIn a contentious hearing Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District board rejected multiple police reform proposals, including a study into whether the second largest school district in the country still needs police and a plan that would have cut the district’s police department budget by 90% over three years.
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Senate Democrats announced Tuesday they would block a Republican-drafted bill focused on narrow police reforms from reaching a vote on the Senate floor.
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The fiery leader of Minneapolis’ police union has built a reputation of defying the city, long before he offered the union’s support to the officers charged in George Floyd’s death.
Read moreColorado commemorated Juneteenth on Friday by passing an enormous police reform bill, which includes blocking qualified immunity as a defense for police officers in state court.
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Body cameras and qualified immunity dominated the discussion at a police reform roundtable Friday in Houston, in which Republican U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz found common ground with the city’s Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner.
Read moreWeighing a law that would alter police conduct and accountability to the public they are sworn to protect — in particular African Americans disproportionately impacted by police brutality — House lawmakers found themselves sharply at odds Wednesday over how to solve a long-running crisis of civil and human rights.
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Ramping up police reforms, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a mandate Wednesday for the NYPD to disclose Internal Affairs Bureau decisions.
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WASHINGTON (CN) — Senate Republicans unveiled a police-reform package on Wednesday that would encourage state and local authorities to ban
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Any time a New York City police shooting leads to the injury or death of a civilian, the NYPD must publicly release footage from officers’ body-worn cameras within a month, Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that seeks to incentivize police reforms on use-of-force policies and other issues.
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