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Despite defending reality series set inside jail, emails show Sheriff’s Office kicked out ‘Jailbirds: New Orleans’ film crew last year

After agreeing to allow the production crew into the jail, Sheriff’s Office officials became concerned about how it would be portrayed.
by Nick Chrastil October 6, 2021 Updated October 6, 2021

In fake subpoena settlement, Orleans DA’s office agrees to be placed under monitor

The agreement will place significant curbs on prosecutors’ ability to have witnesses, victims arrested.
by Charles Maldonado October 5, 2021 Updated October 7, 2021

‘No place to go but up’: Entergy critics urge a new look at abandoned plan to sell transmission grid, break up vertical monopoly

Entergy planned to sell its transmission assets a decade ago, a commitment that helped put a federal antitrust investigation to rest. It never happened.
by Michael Isaac Stein October 5, 2021 Updated November 2, 2021

Active cases drop in NOLA Public Schools as city sees lower COVID-19 numbers

Despite the recent encouraging data from the district, the 2021-2022 case count among staff and students is already higher than all of last school year’s, likely due in large part to the highly infectious delta variant.
by Marta Jewson October 4, 2021 Updated October 19, 2021

Time for New Orleans to pick up the trash

The city's trash contractors need to be held accountable in every way possible.
by Thomas J. Adams and Suzanne-Juliette Mobley October 4, 2021 Updated October 4, 2021

A ‘Jim Crow jury’ prisoner fights for freedom

Brandon Jackson is one of more than 1,500 people still incarcerated in Louisiana on non-unanimous verdicts, though the United States Supreme Court ruled split verdicts unconstitutional last year. Will he get a chance at freedom?
by Nick Chrastil October 4, 2021 Updated May 26, 2022

Behind The Lens episode 144: Real subpoenas

A settlement in a suit over conditions on death row. And OPSB is asking to subpoena financial records in an ongoing legal dispute with Singleton Charter School.
by Carolyne Heldman October 1, 2021 Updated October 1, 2021

Lusher Charter board votes to begin process of renaming school

The move follows the Orleans Parish School Board’s recent project to remove names of Confederate figures and white supremacists from school buildings.
by Marta Jewson September 30, 2021 Updated September 30, 2021

Class-action settlement mandates time outside of cells, communal meals and recreation for death row prisoners

The suit was filed in 2017 on behalf of death row prisoners, claiming that Angola’s highly restrictive conditions violated their constitutional rights.
by Nick Chrastil September 30, 2021 Updated September 30, 2021

OPSB seeks to subpoena records from charter school financial contractors

The request comes as part of a lawsuit the Dryades YMCA, which runs Singleton Charter School, filed against the school district over the summer.
by Marta Jewson September 29, 2021 Updated September 29, 2021

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