The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has broadened its investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi ... the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the ...
Freedom Summer—an enormous effort to register Black voters—was ongoing in Mississippi. On May 31st, James Chaney, a Black ...
(CN) — Concerned with in-custody deaths and allegations of deplorable inmate conditions, California Attorney General Rob Bonta launched a civil rights investigation Wednesday into the Santa Clara ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff's department whose officers tortured two Black men in a racist attack that included ...
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the Arizona State University Police Department and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office ... a violation of civil rights.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch says Monday that law enforcement officers were justified in using force in five ...
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — A Mississippi man is accused of threatening and shooting at two men Tuesday morning, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. 51-year-old George Bailey ...
S. Department of Justice is monitoring polls in 27 states, including two Ohio counties, to ensure federal voting laws are adhered to on Election Day. The department’s Civil Rights Division will ...
The country's largest Muslim civil rights organization is calling on the Knox County Sheriff's Office to allow women to wear their hijab if they are forced to sit for a mug shot, a policy followed ...
The Mount Holly School District in Burlington County is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for complaints that the district violated the civil rights of students, including an 11 ...