Category: Behind The Lens

Cantrell ends furloughs for some employees. City schools move back to virtual. And older prisoners will soon get the vaccine.

More ITEP requests from Folgers. Emails reveal more about NOPD's use of facial recognition. And a look back at The Lens' coverage of everything that was 2020.

A wrap on last week's election from our panel of reporters.

The Proposition 2 campaign. DA candidates pledge a comprehensive review of non-unanimous jury verdicts. The OPSB races. And rising COVID cases in schools.

NOPD using facial recognition software. Religious schools facing additional legal scrutiny after taking PPP loans. And non-unanimous jury verdicts — we haven't quite gotten past them.

The Kennedy HS lawsuit. City budget hearings in a tough year. A controversial tax proposal on the ballot. And New Orleans public defenders are demanding parity with the DA's office.

A wrap on Tuesday's local elections. (Those have actually ended.) And the Wisner Trust is back in the news again.

The OPSB elections. Civil Service and the Mayor's Office. And more material witness warrants connected to a DA candidate.

Material witness warrants and DA candidates. Sidney Torres and Civil District Court. And the possible end of a five-year-old consent decree over the city's schools.

A critical report on special education at a New Orleans charter school. Furloughs for thousands of city employees. An ordinance that could limit city surveillance. And a court hearing in the Phase III jail dispute.