A former Rocky River police officer who admitted to making illegal searches on law enforcement databases has been granted ...

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

A former St. Petersburg Police Department employee who pleaded guilty to providing information from confidential databases to ...

Pittsburgh police in riot gear stand across from demonstrators with Indivisible Pittsburgh at the intersection of South Craig Street and Forbes Avenue (Caleb McCartney for Next Generation Newsroom) ...

In one of his first acts after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to delete a nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement. Along ...

The nationwide database has tracked police misconduct since 2023, when it was put into place by President Joe Biden. The Trump administration’s Justice Department has deleted the National Law ...

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch discussed a national data collection program in her “Exit Interview.” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed her support for a recently announced program ...

As a former Cook County state’s attorney and a former chief of staff in a district attorney’s office, we were alarmed to learn that President Donald Trump’s administration quietly deleted the first ...

It’s quite democracy-affirming, if somewhat startling in its frankness, to open up the website for the brand new Police Records Access Project database for the state of California. It’s the official ...