New documents submitted by Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman provide job descriptions for his entire staff. The Lens checked that against a list of employees he said were entitled to special pay reserved for law-enforcement personnel and found 48 questionable instances. The sheriff said we just don't understand the law.
The City Council still has to decide the matter, which will end separate dispatch for fire, police and EMS.
But Gusman says under federal exemption for law-enforcement officers, many may not be eligible.
Henry Montgomery and hundreds of other prisoners may get parole hearings, but that doesn't mean they'll go free.
On closer inspection, radical Islam has more than a little in common with our homegrown brand of right-wing fundamentalism.
Effort is aimed at getting those younger than 18 out of the Orleans Parish Prison.
The $6,000 annual bump is supposed to go for employees working in law-enforcement jobs.
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.
We'll talk about the harsh realities of publicly appointed defense attorneys at our October Newsmaker.
