A judge wrote that the search of the car of the man, James Payton, his arrest and guilty plea happened before the state police came under federal monitors.
Sheriff Reilly, who was appointed by Mr. Suozzi's predecessor, Thomas S. Gulotta, said he had tried to improve conditions in the jail, which is still under state and federal monitoring.
The university has operated under a federal monitor, Herbert J. Stern, since late last year, when Mr. Christie's office uncovered nearly $5 million in possible Medicaid fraud there.
Under the 1994 law, the Justice Department has negotiated such consent decrees in Pittsburgh and in the cities of Steubenville and Columbus in Ohio, where the police departments operate under a federal monitor.
And in Newark, the department was placed under a federal monitor after the US Department of Justice found that during a period when McCarthy ran that department, 75% of pedestrian stops were made without constitutionally adequate reasons and in a city where black people make up 54% of the population, they accounted for 85% of those stops.
Dr. Hornsby, the city's first black schools superintendent, said the district still showed vestiges of segregation, which, under the court order, would require continued federal monitoring.
If Ramos said yes, it could trigger federal monitoring of the state's election laws under the Voting Rights Act.
Passing her around from area to area, giving her breaks … they became the pimp," said John Burris, a civil rights attorney who negotiated a federal monitoring agreement that the Oakland Police Department has been under since 2003.
But it invalidated section four, which sets the conditions under which parts of the US must submit voting changes to federal monitoring.
