Explaining its previous denials, the department said that it doesn’t employ its own facial recognition software. Instead, it accesses the technology through state and federal partners. An ACLU lawyer said that was a ‘distinction without a difference.’ […]
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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. […]
The pepper spray discharge occurred after a fight. One detainee has since been charged for his involvement, several months after the incident. […]
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Students who spoke to The Lens reported little oversight from the university after opting to stay in an off-campus vacation rental. […]
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Robert Rettman is the third New Orleans inmate to die in jail this year. […]
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A NOLA Public Schools survey found that only 49% of teachers felt safe to return as of the beginning of June. And COVID-19 infection rates have not improved since. […]
Legislators appear open to changing ‘user-pay’ funding system for criminal justice. […]
‘We’ve become aware of just how much we don’t know pertaining to this particular virus,’ one doctor told The Lens. […]
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“Jamming 1.5 million humans into the same party space that struggled to accommodate half a million in 1970 is, put simply, unsafe.” […]
