The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia over the use of race in admissions to its top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

The Trump administration's DOJ said it would withdraw existing consent decrees and retract its findings of civil rights violations in Memphis.

DOJ drops civil rights investigation into the Memphis Police Dept.

Mayor Craig Greenberg unveiled a plan titled "Louisville's consent decree," which will guide police reforms in the absence of a federal agreement.

The Justice Department is working toward dropping reform agreements with police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky., after killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in those cities drew national attention.

DOJ investigation found the Minneapolis Police Department engaged in “a pattern or practice of conduct” that used excessive force, discriminated against Black and Nativ