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 […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced an alarming rise in drug abuse, violent crime, and other indicators of collective trauma. Sadly, many of my constituents feel unsafe in their own neighborhoods. And they have good reason. According to NOPD, carjackings are up 47 percent between 2021 and 2022. Homicides are also up more than 51 percent […]
In an analysis of publicly available 911 data, the Vera Institute of Justice - a nonpartisan group comprised of hundreds of researchers and advocates - found that over 61 percent of 911 calls in New Orleans are for non-criminal situations.
On Tuesday, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge sent a memo to staff instructing them to review policies and programs that "pose barriers to housing for persons with criminal histories or their families."
Audio released by the Associated Press (AP) shows the Louisiana State Trooper who beat Ronald Greene with a flashlight, tased him, and punched him during his fatal arrest tried to portray himself as a frightened victim to investigators.
The singer for the band The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis, described repeatedly raping a fourteen year-old girl in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in his Autobiography titled Scar Tissue, released in 2004. Kiedis was 23 when he met the girl at one of his shows, and later discovered she was attending a Catholic School. This […]
Aaron Hebert, a survivor of childhood sex abuse at the hands of Catholic Monsignor Lawrence Hecker, wrote a letter to Chief Federal Magistrate Judge Michael B. North on 03/28/2022, questioning the sealing of documents in the Archdiocese of New Orleans Bankruptcy. Hebert asked Judge North ….why would you seal the court document deposition of Father […]
The Louisiana Department of Public Safety (DPS) has agreed to spend nearly $1.5 million to hire The Bowman Group to perform an independent external review and assessment of Louisiana State Police (LSP) policies, procedures, practices, training, and culture amid scrutiny over trooper beatings of Black motorists following several high-profile cases.
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