Nick Chrastil on The Lens’ lawsuit against the state Office of Juvenile Justice for public records related to its $9.5m emergency staffing contract. And author Matthew Kincaid joins us to talk about his new book: Freedom Teaching.
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The Lens: Why we’re suing the Office of Juvenile Justice for public records
The Tulane First Amendment Law Clinic is taking on our case to win access to public records that the OJJ says it can’t find—or is refusing to provide.
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Matthew Kincaid: Strategies that Cede Power to Students
An excerpt from Matthew Kincaid’s new book Freedom Teaching.
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On Saturday, MLK Parade Again Spans St. Claude Avenue
Here it comes again this year: a birthday parade for Martin Luther King Jr. that returns to its traditional route: St. Claude Avenue, starting at 11 a.m. today (Saturday, January 13). The parade’s announcement came late from organizers at Friends of King School District, who finally resolved parade-permit security a few days ago, after being […]
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Behind The Lens episode 226: ‘The means to fight this’
Nick Chrastil on the federal consent decree guiding the jail’s construction of a facility called Phase III. Terry Jones from Floodlight on carbon capture and sequestration in the state.
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How Phase III came to be
Though they once applauded the jail’s ambitious, federally overseen reforms, community groups and political leaders in New Orleans united in opposition to a key mandate stemming from those efforts: the construction of a $109 million mental health jail.
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‘Auld Len Synes’ – Top 2023 stories
In the 7th Ward, the Buttermilk Drop – one of the city’s top picks for home-delivery breakfasts – scrambled to pay its December bills, after a hacker switched banking information linked to the bakery’s Uber Eats account. In September, four months after the death of Calvin Cains III at the hands of Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s […]
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Behind The Lens episode 225: ‘If there’s an accident, it’d be hard to evacuate’ ‘
Delaney Dryfoos on new land growing along Louisiana’s coast. Sara Sneath on Venture Global’s tax incentives in Plaquemines Parish and parallels to the mining town of Port Sulphur.