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Behind The Lens episode 133: ‘That’s actually stated in the statute’

No reports on the arrests of witnesses and crime victims, two years after passage of a law requiring them. Council hears about funding for new Entergy substation. And a privately run ICE facility is hit with a complaint for alleged human rights violations.
by Carolyne Heldman

This week on Behind the Lens, DA’s offices around the state have not been in compliance with a two-year-old law requiring them to report their use of material witness warrants.

Funding details for the proposed new power substation for the Sewerage and Water Board’s pump system are revealed to the New Orleans City Council.

A Louisiana ICE facility was the subject of a complaint filed with the Department of Homeland Security by several civil rights groups for alleged human rights violations.

Our guests this week are contributing reporter Madeline Aruffo, government and cultural economy reporter Michael Isaac Stein, criminal justice reporter Nick Chrastil, and The Lens Editor Charles Maldonado.

Behind The Lens is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and Stitcher. And we broadcast the show on community radio stations 102.3 FM WHIV LP in Mid-City and 90.3 FM WAMF-LP in the Marigny.

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Carolyne Heldman

Carolyne Heldman has been in media for 35 years, most recently as Executive Director at an NPR member station in Colorado where she was responsible for new multi-platform content initiatives, strategic planning, research, branding, and non-traditional revenue generation. During her tenure she also created and launched four weekly news, public affairs and cultural affairs programs and monthly live Town Hall broadcasts. Heldman moved to New Orleans last summer with her husband and canine companion and they live happily in The Marigny.

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