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.
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.
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.
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.
New Orleans school district comes out against state policy shift on school quarantines
If districts opt in, the policy would allow close contacts to remain in class without a quarantine. NOLA Public Schools district indicated they will not adopt the policy.
NOLA Public Schools delays employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate after Hurricane Ida
Officials are giving employees more time to report their vaccine status.
‘We can’t depend on the government’: Mutual aid groups work to fill needs for immigrant communities after Ida
With FEMA cash aid limited to certain groups, grassroots organizations have mobilized to fill unmet needs.
NOLA Public Schools tracking 99 COVID-19 cases, 62 quarantining
Most cases are connected to K-8 schools.
Behind The Lens episode 143: ‘For now, there’s nowhere to go’
OPSB approves $15M disaster recovery contract for post-Ida repair work
The contract amount was increased from $500,000 approved earlier this year.
