A monitor overseeing the New Orleans jail recently criticized the Sheriff’s Office over continued problems with drugs and contraband.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Mayor Cantrell releases proposed 2022 city budget
The City Council will begin hearings next week to determine whether it’s going to make any changes to Mayor Cantrell’s draft before finalizing a budget by the end of November.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Angola prisoner who says his parole was stripped illegally appears in Baton Rouge court
Tuesday’s hearing did not address the merits of the case. Attorneys instead argued over whether the court has jurisdiction.
Posted inCoronavirus
School district reports a decline in COVID-19 cases, quarantines
School officials expect the FDA to approve the COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-old children in coming weeks.
Posted inSchools
Dryades YMCA seeks to dismiss lawsuit it filed against NOLA-PS last summer
The group runs Singleton Charter School and was granted a restraining order that prevented the district from closing the school over the summer.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
New Orleans expects 2022 revenues to nearly reach pre-pandemic levels
A key indicator of the city’s financial health — recurring general fund revenue — in 2022 is expected to be within three percent of 2019 levels.
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 147: The case-to-quarantine ratio
School quarantines underreported due to data error. Cantrell’s plan for tens of millions in federal COVID relief. And an update in the case of Brandon Jackson.
Posted inSchools
OPSB supports expanded options for English Learners to earn diplomas
The resolution was introduced by J.C. Romero, who grew up in a non-English speaking household in New Orleans.
Posted inCriminal Justice
‘In other words, nothing has been accomplished today’: No decision on new trial in Bossier split-jury case
Brandon Jackson was convicted of armed robbery by a 10-2 jury in 1997. Split verdicts are no longer legal. But his conviction, and those for hundreds more, is still considered valid.
Posted inOpinion
David Waggonner on New Orleans and the way forward after Ida
An interview with architect David Waggoner, by Marin Pedersen.