PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine lawmaker has filed a complaint about a top award the state police gave to a trooper accused of racially profiling a man in a traffic stop, while judges overseeing...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana said Tuesday it is suing state police for records regarding the use of facial recognition technology.

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff’s department has said three teens, who are Black, were wrongly detained at a Target store in Westlake Village during a grand theft...

BERLIN (AP) — After a lengthy political standoff, Germany's top security official has commissioned a study into police work that will include examining the extent of racism in the force.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declined to sign into law a measure designed to discourage racial profiling of motorists by police, concerned that some language could prevent...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office has dismissed charges related to an August 2019 traffic stop after a defense attorney submitted video of the stop as evidence of racial profiling...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Black man who is going to trial for murder must wear a mask even though he thinks it could prejudice jurors against him, a judge ruled.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — For the second consecutive year, a Maine lawmaker has proposed legislation designed to combat racial profiling, by requiring all law enforcement agencies to document...

LONDON (AP) — British sprinter Bianca Williams and her partner have accused London police of racial profiling after officers stopped and searched the couple's car, with their 3-month-old son...

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — A coastal county in Oregon has rescinded a face mask policy that made exceptions for people of color worried about racial profiling after a backlash spurred by an article in...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The findings of a recent survey at a women’s hospital in New Mexico are in the process of being referred to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines City Council unanimously approved an anti-racial profiling ordinance that prohibits biased policing and requires city employees to report violations by...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines City Council is set to consider a resolution supporting the decriminalization of marijuana in the city.

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — A black man has filed a federal lawsuit accusing police officers in a Boston suburb of making racist jokes, racially profiling and wrongfully arresting him....

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Democratic Party said Thursday it's incorporating opposition to police brutality into its platform this year.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines City Council has unanimously advanced a proposal to ban racial profiling by police in the wake of nationwide protests and civil unrest decrying racial...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines City Council plans to work on defining racial profiling and collecting data before enacting an ordinance banning it.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's largest county has reached a racial profiling settlement with a black woman who was stopped by deputies three times in less than a month but never...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A self-described advocate for police accountability is suing St. Louis for the release of police stop records that he believes could prove certain officers target black motorists...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on a lawsuit for St. Louis police traffic stops records (all times local):

2:40 p.m.

The St. Louis city attorney says police deny the existence of traffic...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal prosecutors dismissed a felony charge against a Guatemalan who was arrested after coming to the attention of Border Patrol agents for speaking Spanish in public in a...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol's suspicions about a family were aroused because they appeared to be of "Central-American origin" and because they spoke Spanish while shopping at a...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A central Mississippi sheriff's department would adopt an "unbiased policing policy" and set new rules about traffic checkpoints and encounters with pedestrians, under a...

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have arrested multiple people in a Washington state county, a move advocates say was based on racial profiling.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An Orlando police officer who was fired after arresting two 6-year-olds at their schools has a disciplinary history that includes excessive force and a racial profiling...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A county in south Mississippi has settled a racial profiling lawsuit and its sheriff's department is setting new policies that limit officers' use of race or national origin...

DETROIT (AP) — A board that oversees Detroit police has approved the use of facial recognition technology to investigate crimes.

The software has been used since 2018. But The Detroit News...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is questioning the constitutionality of the Trump administration's expansion of immigration agents' power to deport migrants without having...

WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Discount retailer T.J. Maxx has apologized to a Connecticut family who says their teenage son was the victim of racial profiling by store employees.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A youth advocacy group is alleging that the use of a database to identify suspected gang members by Providence police and members of Mayor Jorge Elorza's administration...

MIAMI (AP) — The city of South Miami and a coalition of immigrant advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday over a new law that forces local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with...