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WEBSep 20, 2024 · Licensing a troubled juvenile jail. A year ago, when Jackson Parish opened its new, unlicensed juvenile jail, kids complained of extended stints of solitary confinement, along with extensive abuse and violations. A DCFS inspection supported those claims, but the agency gave the jail a license anyway. by Nick Chrastil October 1, 2024.
Neighborhoods Watched
WEBOct 21, 2021 · The city only directly owns 555 cameras, which are plotted on the map below. The other 420 live video feeds come through a program called Safecam Platinum, which allows private residents and businesses to hook up their cameras to the city system. This is a map of 48 participating Safecam Platinum businesses.
As electricity returns to New Orleans, focus shifts to long-term ...
WEBSep 8, 2021 · Ten days after Hurricane Ida knocked out power to nearly a million Entergy customers, the company is coming close to restoring electricity to the overwhelming majority of households and businesses in New Orleans, Jefferson Parish and Baton Rouge, company executives said on Wednesday.
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WEBSince our inception in 2009, The Lens has been honored in several local, regional, and national awards competitions. Losing Ground – the groundbreaking project about coastal loss combining explanatory reporting, photography, aerial and satellite imagery showing how the Gulf of Mexico had swallowed much of Southeast Louisiana over the last 80 years, and audio stories from people who had […]
About The Lens’ property sales search tool
WEBEverything in this tool is taken directly from the Land Records Division’s computer system. Those employees may make mistakes when entering sales. Due to the volume of records, we cannot double-check everything against court documents. However, we do look for obvious errors, such as a sale date in the future, and will withhold publication of ...
Divergent rulings on how to treat old split-jury verdicts could …
WEBNov 11, 2021 · In a first for the state, a Louisiana state appeals court ruled on Wednesday that a United States Supreme Court decision ruling non-unanimous jury verdicts unconstitutional should apply to all past convictions, including in cases where defendants have exhausted the normal state appeals process.
NOLA Public Schools, state Dept. of Education want out of ... - The …
WEBNov 12, 2021 · The Louisiana Department of Education and NOLA Public Schools district both say they are ready to exit a nearly seven-year-old federal consent judgment that requires monitoring and reporting on special education services in New Orleans schools. But the Southern Poverty Law Center, which brought the 2010 lawsuit that led to the consent judgment, doesn’t think the agencies are yet able to ...
Living School mom asks school board: 'What's more important, …
WEBDec 4, 2023 · At the Living School, 16-year-old Jameson Phillips finally brought himself up to grade level. “It’s the first time in his life that he’s not behind in school,” said his grandmother, Shawn Bazile, who took in Jameson a few years ago. The key, she believes, has been the school’s small size and dedication to one-on-one attention […]
A year after critical report, massive case and warrant ... - The Lens
WEBSep 28, 2020 · Photo by Matt Davis. It has been more than a year since The Washington Post reported that there were a startling 56,000 outstanding warrants for people in New Orleans Municipal and Traffic Court dating back to 2002. A similar analysis by the group Stand With Dignity — an arm of the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice — found about 55,000 warrants issued for about 44,000 people ...
Neighborhoods Watched: Safety
WEBOct 21, 2021 · Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans’ violent crime and homicide rates have oscillated. Homicides fell to their lowest level in decades in 2019. But in 2020, New Orleans followed a national trend of spiking homicide rates that has continued into 2021. In search of an explanation, some looked at how policing tactics changed in 2020.