Judges have also appointed special masters to serve as "receivers" of public agencies and to oversee implementation of consent decrees involving reforms at prisons and mental institutions.
And a new official is to be appointed by the federal government soon to oversee compliance with the consent decree.
Second, Mr. Farmer attempts to minimize the importance of the consent decree and the appointment of a monitor to oversee the State Police.
Settling the suit, the Teamsters signed a consent decree that called for a federal administrator to oversee their elections and for government-appointed investigators and a government review board to ferret out corruption.
In a recent proposal prepared by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the creation of a 'central organisation' to oversee the clinical trials and consent forms has been suggested [ 59].
Sheryl Robinson Wood, a lawyer appointed in 2003 to oversee Detroit's compliance with its consent decree, resigned in 2009 after it was disclosed that she was having an affair with the mayor at the time, Kwame M. Kilpatrick.
At the LAPD, Scott was deputy chief of the South Bureau and helped to oversee reforms required by the federal consent decree.
Mr. Landrieu said he hoped Washington and the city could enter into a consent decree, which involves the appointment of a federal monitor to oversee reform.
Under Detroit's consent agreement with the state, the FAB will have power to oversee city finances and operations and approve or veto budgets and contracts.
The city recently agreed to a humiliating federal consent decree, under which a Federal District Court judge will have the power to oversee changes.
