The Justice Department notified Sangamon County, Ill., that it had opened a civil rights investigation after reports about ...

The government made a list of demands in dozens of categories in a letter Thursday to the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office.

The US Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation of Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office four months ...

SummaryDOJ letter cites statutes from 3 separate federal laws on race, disabilities, police safety The United States ...

The fatal shooting of Sonya Massey has led to the Department of Justice launching a civil rights investigation of the ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the deadly police shooting of a Black woman that happened at her downstate ...

The Justice Department also reviewed the sheriff’s department’s employment practices, such as a lack of diversity on the ...

A scathing Justice Department letter dated Thursday to Sangamon County Sheriff Paula Crouch and other county officials said ...

“The Sheriff’s Office, along with involved county agencies, has engaged in discussions and pledged full cooperation with the Department of Justice in its review,” Sheriff Paula Crouch said Friday.

At the time of the fatal shooting, the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office was led by then-Sheriff Jack Campbell, who retired in ...

The Department of Justice is formally inquiring into Sangamon County for its nondiscrimination practices. County officials ...

The fatal shooting earlier this year of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, sparked national outcry over police violence.