A massive backlog of police conduct complaints against Minneapolis officers has finally been cleared, the city announced Monday. It comes after 16 months of focused efforts by the city’s Office of ...

Replacing the troubled Phoenix pay system is estimated to cost at least $4.2-billion, according to a new report from ...

Oregon Senate lawmakers called in officials from the state Department of Education this week to explain why the agency is struggling to clear a backlog of school discrimination complaints despite the ...

The Department of Education (ED) has been forced to double back on its March 2025 decision to lay off hundreds of civil rights employees. In December 2025, the agency called back employees who worked ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 03: Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee's Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee about the proposed ...

Here are six hidden costs that quietly accumulate inside expanding backlogs, along with early warning signs leaders can use to identify them. .

For years, Indiana has struggled to clear its stack of untested rape kits. Lawmakers are once again hoping to tackle the problem that leaves victims waiting for justice. House Bill 1413, if passed, ...

When Oregon State Police announced in 2018 that they had eliminated a massive backlog of unprocessed sexual assault evidence kits, officials celebrated ending a decades-old managerial and moral ...

The backlog is partially the result of switching case management systems. About 1,700 of these cases allege domestic violence ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is grappling with a mounting backlog of school and college discrimination cases, prompting an unusual request from ...

The key difference between the sprint backlog and the product backlog is that the sprint backlog represents the work developers expect to complete in the next few weeks, while the product backlog ...