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This category showcases the lead coverage readers need to know, offering context, clarity, and insight into issues shaping New Orleans and beyond.

At least one New Orleans school shuts in-person classes down due to rising COVID-19 numbers, staff exposures

School CEO says it is ‘unwise’ and ‘unethical’ to continue to operate as normal now that the city’s daily case counts and positivity rate have surpassed limits set in the fall.
by Marta Jewson January 4, 2021 Updated January 4, 2021

As DA, Jason Williams plans to keep a list of police officers with credibility issues he won’t take cases from

Details are limited, but Williams says he expects it to be a “collaborative process” with the police department.
by Nick Chrastil December 18, 2020 Updated December 22, 2020

‘There was this sense of relief’: Vaccinations begin in Louisiana

Nearly 40,000 doses are expected to arrive this week. Ochsner, VA Medical Center and LCMC have confirmed receiving shipments.
by Philip Kiefer December 15, 2020 Updated December 18, 2020

City releases dozens of pages of emails on police use of facial recognition

The emails show that the NOPD and Louisiana State Police have had a formal relationship since at least 2018 that provides the NOPD access facial recognition software.
by Michael Isaac Stein December 14, 2020 Updated December 14, 2020

‘Every single person in that office has to understand the culture shift’: How Jason Williams plans to remake prosecution in New Orleans

The DA-elect lays out his plan for hiring staff and a new Civil Rights Division to be headed by former director of the Innocence Project New Orleans
by Nick Chrastil December 11, 2020 Updated December 11, 2020

With FDA authorization pending, Louisiana expects first shipment of vaccine within days

An advisory panel on Thursday recommended the agency approve an emergency use authorization. Frontline healthcare workers would be the first to be vaccinated.
by Philip Kiefer December 10, 2020 Updated December 18, 2020

NOLA Public Schools COVID-19 cases hold steady at 80, 712 quarantining

The cases are spread across 44 campuses, more than half the city's public schools.
by Marta Jewson December 10, 2020 Updated December 10, 2020

City’s request to stop construction of Phase III jail facility should be denied, federal judge recommends

In scathing report, judge says he has “lost trust” in the city.
by Nick Chrastil December 7, 2020 Updated December 11, 2020

Jason Williams will be next Orleans Parish DA

Williams defeated Keva Landrum in Saturday's election. He has pledged to end the policies of mass incarceration in the city.
by Nick Chrastil December 5, 2020 Updated December 5, 2020

Nearly half of NOLA Public Schools campuses have a COVID-19 case, 839 quarantining

Two schools reported more than 100 people quarantining.
by Marta Jewson December 3, 2020 Updated December 3, 2020

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