A federal court ordered the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health to isolate patients at St. Elizabeths Hospital who have been exposed to the coronavirus.

A lawyer for the Federal Bureau of Prisons told a federal judge today that approximately 85% of the 120 men who have been locked in crowded conditions in Hope Village will be sent to home confinement.

According to the lawsuit, the crowded conditions at Hope Village presented a serious health risk to the returning citizens in the time of pandemic.

Conditions at D.C.'s public psychiatric hospital have declined since the outbreak of COVID-19.

M.B. Cottingham, the 40-year-old District resident who was subjected to an unconstitutional and exceedingly invasive bodily search by Metropolitan Police Department officer Sean Lojacono in September 2017, has agreed to settle his lawsuit against the officer for an undisclosed amount.

Today civil rights groups asked a Court to order Mayor Muriel Bowser and two other top D.C. officials to require police to collect comprehensive data on all stops and frisks in the District.

The groups threaten a lawsuit over two-year delay of NEAR Act stop-and-frisk data collection requirement.

The amended complaint names 27 D.C. police officer defendants and adds two plaintiffs: a 10-year-old boy from North Carolina and his mother, who were peacefully demonstrating when he was knocked down and they were both exposed to pepper spray by D.C. officers.

The American Civil Liberties Union and local officials in DC announced today that they are launching efforts to bring greater transparency to the acquisition and use of local police surveillance technologies.