On Tuesday, the City of New Orleans filed an ordinance that prohibits law enforcement and City departments from using public funds to prosecute abortions. Enforcing the state's trigger law banning abortion is the "lowest priority for the City," the ordinance says.
Operation Restoration is an organization that was founded in 2016 by Syrita Steib with the goal to build a community and support system for women impacted by incarceration through education. Through Operation Restoration (OR), women who were incarcerated can receive an education that will benefit them in the outside world. In addition, OR empowers these […]
As America continues to be the number one country in the world for new incarcerations, we can no longer continue to sit silently in the wake of yet another oppressive and biased War on Drugs.
A so-called "takeover" of New Orleans streets by several Baton Rouge car clubs and street racing groups has resulted in outrage from both New Orleans officials and residents after several social media videos showing street racers backing up traffic, blocking police vehicles, and then jumping on them when police attempted to get through went viral on Sunday.
After a month, a bill (HB1077 by Representative Randal Gaines (D-57)) still waits in the House to potentially provide justice to those who were convicted with a non-unanimous jury. The legislation would provide a potential path to freedom for people who had been convicted of felonies by non-unanimous juries in Louisiana. In Louisiana, a conviction […]
For forty years, police and prosecutors have weaponized Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) law to terrorize queer/trans Louisianians. A documentary by filmmakers Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka entitled CANS Can’t Stand follows a group of Black trans women in New Orleans who are fighting to repeal that lawand advance trans liberation across the […]
More than 20 groups have joined together to leverage their power and push for the passage of what has been monikered the CROWN Act (House Bill 41), which would protect students and workers from discrimination based on their natural hairstyles. It is often said that together we are strong, but too often that has meant […]
In February of this year, The Lens Nola published an article entitled After George Floyds murder, the New Orleans City Council created a committee to hear from historically marginalized communities. It never met. The committee was formed, in part, as a response to the request by local social justice advocates to examine how the citys resources […]
Gender bias still exists! Three female district court judges Rachel Johnson, Karen Herman and Nakisha Ervin-Knott – have already announced they will be running this fall to fill three open seats at Louisianas Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal which is based in New Orleans. A new report released by The Barbara Lee Foundation, an […]
Arthur Morrell, who has proudly served the citizens of New Orleans for the last 39 years first as a State Representative and more recently as Clerk of Criminal District Court, will retire Monday, May 1, 2022. I am honored to have worked for the people of our great city for almost four decades. While I […]
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