On this week’s episode, oil workers on foreign-flagged ships don’t have the same protections as workers on American-flagged vessels, leaving many of them vulnerable. Special guest Sara Sneath of Floodlight has the story.

A new report from a local watchdog group is urging all government bodies to permanently retain the COVID-era practice of livestreaming public meetings and to make it a law to do so.

As a candidate, District Attorney Jason Williams promised a comprehensive review of hundreds of split-jury convictions from Orleans Parish. A year after that project began, the pace of the reviews has slowed, but the DA’s office maintains it’s making progress.

Our guests this week are Lens reporters Nick Chrastil, Michael Isaac Stein, editor Charles Maldonado and Floodlight investigative reporter Sara Sneath.

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