Police association accuses NOPD Public Integrity Bureau of ignoring, covering up alleged misconduct by politically favored cops
PANO is asking the city’s Civil Service Commission to open an investigation into PIB.
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- Nicholas Chrastil covers criminal justice for The Lens. As a freelancer, his work has appeared in Slate, Undark, Mother Jones, and the Atavist, among other outlets. Chrastil has a master's degree in mass communication from Louisiana State University, where his research focused on New Orleans' newspapers during the Reconstruction era. During his time at LSU, he also covered the Louisiana state legislature as part of the Manship Statehouse Bureau. He is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
City Council moves toward full decriminalization of marijuana possession, pardons for anyone cited after 2010
A proposed law would give "prospective pardons" to anyone cited for marijuana possession under city law.
‘Tantamount to torture’: Complaint alleges inhumane conditions, overuse of solitary confinement at Pine Prairie immigrant detention center
GEO Group, the private prison corporation that runs the facility, denied the allegations.
New Orleans City Attorney dismisses nearly 400,000 old cases in Municipal and Traffic Court
City Council members press judges on improvements to ankle monitoring
The council meeting follows the recent killing of a 7th Ward woman. The suspect in the killing had been ordered to be on an electronic monitor.
Security district officers sued for allegedly pulling guns on Black youths looking for lost dog
The suit alleges that the officers were racially profiling the group when they stopped them.
Legislature creates task force to consider relief for people still in prison on non-unanimous jury convictions
Lawmaker says the group will aim to find ways to identify cases where defendants were convicted wrongfully as a result of problems in their cases beyond split decisions, such as weak evidence, misconduct or discrimination.
Report: New Orleans judges continued to issue warrants for failure to appear during pandemic despite court closures, health risks
In their annual report, watchdog group Court Watch NOLA called the practice "egregious."
Nearly 70 percent of people incarcerated at the New Orleans jail are fully vaccinated, according to sheriff
The vaccination rate in the jail is now higher than the rest of the city and state.
