Two years after the legislature passed a law requiring DA’s offices to submit annual data on the use of material witness warrants, the reports only started coming in last week.
GEO Group, the private prison corporation that runs the facility, denied the allegations.
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.
The suit alleges that the officers were racially profiling the group when they stopped them.
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.
Legislation would have wiped out millions of arrest and conviction records.
In their annual report, watchdog group Court Watch NOLA called the practice "egregious."
The vaccination rate in the jail is now higher than the rest of the city and state.
