The Justice Department has reached an out-of-court settlement with Lexington, Mississippi, and its police department over a 2024 finding of a pattern of civil rights violations. The agreement, which has no court decree, requires ability-to-pay checks before new fines, bail hearings within 48 hours, an end to quotas and new use-of-force reporting, and runs for three years.

Data company Cloudera has agreed to stay out of the federal PERM green card sponsorship program for two years, set up a $1.4 million back-pay fund and pay $600,000 in civil penalties to settle Justice Department claims that it shut U.S. workers out of jobs it was filling for visa holders. Cloudera denies discriminating and says the problem was an email address that did not work.