City agrees to release public database after Lens promises to protect private info
Deal keeps secure any legally protected information accidentally provided by the city.
Live blog tonight: Schools chief visits West Bank for town hall meeeting
City’s log of public-records requests and answers riddled with errors, anomalies
Lack of reliable information makes it difficult to check compliance with law requiring transparency.
City makes fitful progress in repairing school-zone caution lights
Drive by a school zone light at random in the city of New Orleans on a weekday and there’s about a 50 percent chance it works. And that’s an improvement. The number of broken lights has slowly dropped in three field surveys by The Lens, but the city hasn’t come close to repairing them all, as a city official promised in July.
Superintendent of Orleans Parish schools begins series of community meetings
Parents and other community members invited tonight to 6 p.m. event at Audubon Charter School.
Louisiana man, imprisoned for 50 years for killing a deputy, is at center of Supreme Court hearing on youth sentencing
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that youth can’t be sentenced automatically to life in prison. But what should happen to the couple thousand inmates already serving such sentences? Tuesday, lawyers for Henry Montgomery argue that they should get parole hearings. An in-depth look at the crime and the man at the center of the case.
Love letter to a wild and crazy mistress as a jobseeker bails out of New Orleans
Seduced by New Orleans, a young Tulane grad breaks it off and heads back east.
Public Defender Derwyn Bunton will appear at October’s Newsmakers event (video)
We'll talk about the harsh realities of publicly appointed defense attorneys at our October Newsmaker.
With new contract, state starts process of creating new standardized test for spring
Department of Education picks longtime testing company for contract valued at $3.1 million.
IG’s office defends no-bid contract to review Independent Police Monitor’s work
Attorney says use of "cooperative endeavor agreement" frees it from competitive process.
