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

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

The Sangamon County Board approved an agreement this week to send juvenille offenders to a facility in Lake County.

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

The Sangamon County Clerk's office will have until Nov. 26 to certify the recorder's race, which is separated by 68 votes.

Massey’s killing sparked national outrage and renewed calls for passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which ...

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

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

In a letter to Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office, the DOJ said the shooting raised “serious concerns about SCSO’s ...

On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Justice officially began an investigation into the Sangamon County Sheriff's ...

Sonya Massey's death has brought the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office to the U.S. Department of Justice's attention.

The police killing of Sonya Massey has promoted a civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.