Since Reconstruction began in 1865, the DOJ's Civil Rights Division says that Houston County has only had one Black member of the county commission. That is despite 31% of the county being Black ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Houston County, Ga., alleging its process for electing its board of commissioners violates Black voters’ rights. The county uses an at ...

The U.S. Justice Department sued a Georgia county Thursday, alleging that its method of electing county commissioners discriminates against Black voters. Houston County, home to 163,000 people ...

ATLANTA — Countywide elections for all five seats on the Houston County Commission block representation for Black voters, resulting in an all-white board, according to lawsuit by the U.S ...

The Department of Justice has sued to block a merger involving Houston’s largest publicly ... said it would defend against what it referred to as the DOJ’s “overreaching interpretation ...

US Sues Georgia's Houston County, Says It Violates Black Voters ... and the two sides had held discussions. "If we agree with DOJ regarding a possible violation of the Voting Rights Act after ...

The Houston County Board of Commissioners provided the following response to Channel 2 Action News: “The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Houston County on Dec. 19, 2024 in a ...

This person also stressed that the Jan. 6 investigation and the FBI personnel involved in investigating each case "fully followed Bureau and DOJ guidelines," and that violations of federal ...

Since Reconstruction began in 1865, the DOJ's Civil Rights Division says that Houston County has only had one Black member of the county commission. That is despite 31% of the county being Black ...