The U.S. Justice department has ordered that the records of Sonya Massey's killing be turned over by an Illinois sheriff's office.

The Justice Department also reviewed the sheriff’s department’s employment practices, such as a lack of diversity on the force. These allegations collectively raise concerns of race and disability discrimination prohibited by Title VI,

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

The U.S. Justice Department is demanding records related to the shooting of an Illinois woman who was killed in her home by a sheriff’s deputy

The US Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation of Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office four months after a deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey while responding to her call about a possible prowler outside the 36-year-old Black woman’s home.

Sonya Massey was shot and killed while deputies responded to her call about a possible prowler outside her home in July.

The Justice Department is opening a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of an Illinois woman inside her own home by a sheriff's deputy. Sonya Massey, 36, was killed by former Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson in July amid an exchange over a pot of boiling water.