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 $34 million upfront investment from Entergy will cost more than $85 million to pay back.
The school’s governing board has hired a consultant to investigate a number of allegations made by its former HR director in a lengthy letter.
Fewer than 40 percent of state residents have received their first shots, among the lowest rates in the country.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell originally said that all the money from the fine should go to the Sewerage and Water Board.
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 project is estimated to be completed in time for the 2023 hurricane season.
The interim CEO who was appointed in March, following the CEO’s resignation, previously served as member of the school’s governing board.
