WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog agency said Tuesday it found a “troubling” number of failures this year by military law enforcement agencies to alert the FBI to criminal history information.

Public records are one of the few ways that criminal justice reporters can learn more about what happens in prisons, jails, youth detention facilities and ICE detention centers. There are few other ...

A new state audit highlights serious gaps in the Texas’ criminal records database, showing roughly a quarter of the state’s criminal background checks, used to screen teachers, doctors, nurses, and ...