Sentence examples for reform agreements from inspiring English sources

Since 1994, seventy police and sheriff's departments have come under investigation; forty-one entered into reform agreements, including consent decrees.

After more than a decade of consent decrees, experts now say effective reform agreements take into account department sizes and service demands.

Some departments that implemented earlier reform agreements appear to have lost ground after having made progress, including in Pittsburgh, where Oakland's team served earlier as monitors.

The decision on Friday followed testimony last month by Michael G. Cherkasky, the federally appointed monitor, in which he urged the judge to lift the consent decree as a recognition of the department's success so far and as an encouragement to other departments under similar reform agreements with the Justice Department.

When Sessions took office this year, the DOJ had 19 ongoing reform agreements with police departments, including Baltimore and Cleveland.

Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review of reform agreements that are currently in place with a number of police departments across the country.

Legislators are planning to return soon to Albany, where a campaign finance reform agreement is still in limbo.

On the heels of a wide-ranging reform agreement with this city's Police Department, the United States Department of Justice is in negotiations about the Orleans Parish Prison.

In situations where federal officials find a pattern or practice of constitutional violations, as in Ferguson, city officials can sign a reform agreement or risk a lawsuit.

"This $12.2bn school funding reform agreement guaranteed record levels of funding and an unprecedented six years of funding certainty for Victorian schools," the spokeswoman said.

James Knowles III, the city's part-time mayor, has repeatedly warned that the costs of implementing the reform agreement – known as a "consent decree", could be financially ruinous.