Police in Alameda County are more likely to handcuff Black children experiencing a mental health crisis — particularly girls — than children of other races, according to a new study out of UCSF ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Police officers in Rochester, New York, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl while responding to what a police official called a report of "family trouble" in an incident ...

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has signed a law that prohibits police officers from using handcuffs to restrain children under the age of 14. “Sometimes the punishments do a lot more bad than good," ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Governor Ned Lamont (D) on Thursday signed into law a bill forbidding law enforcement from using handcuffs to restrain anyone under the age of 14. The law will be effective ...

By Robert Hill The city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has agreed to pay $285,000 to the family of Honestie Hodges, an ...

The state Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to prohibit a police officer from placing handcuffs on a child under the age of 14 who has not been charged with a crime. The bill does provide exceptions ...