NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans City Council President JP Morrell said he wants more financial transparency from the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (OPSO). He introduced an ordinance at a ...

Jay Batt, a New Orleans businessman who represented District A on the City Council for four years, died in his sleep Sunday night. He was 64. No cause of death has been established, but Batt had ...

LEADERS ARE SUPPORTING THE GOVERNOR’S ORDER FOR AN AUDIT New Orleans City Council members and the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office addressed the response after 10 inmates escaped the Orleans ...

The New Orleans City Council is meeting Tuesday morning to hold a public hearing in the aftermath of a brazen Orleans Parish jail escape that saw 10 inmates break out of the 9-year-old facility.

WELL, LAWMAKERS IN BATON ROUGE HONORING A WELL-KNOWN VOICE IN NEW ORLEANS POLITICS AND BUSINESS. JAY BHATT UNEXPECTEDLY PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT AT A FORMER CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AND LONGTIME GOP ...

“We were not able to do that.” That bothers not only Knox but also New Orleans City Council vice president Helena Moreno. “There’s something off. And I think that that’s what some of us ...

The ACLU is now urging the New Orleans City Council to launch a full investigation and reimpose a moratorium on facial recognition use until robust privacy protections, due process safeguards, and ...

Some cops apparently found the city council process too sluggish and chose to ignore it to get the most out of their access to the tech, the Post found. Now, New Orleans police have paused the ...

In a fiery Tuesday meeting, the New Orleans City Council grilled the city's top law enforcement officials over Friday's 10-man jailbreak that has sent shock waves across the nation. During the ...

NEW ORLEANS — For two years ... This appears out of step with a 2022 city council ordinance, which limited police to using facial recognition only for searches of specific suspects in their ...

Jay Batt – lifelong New Orleans resident, business, civic leader, and city council member whose public service helped communities recover from Hurricane Katrina – passed away in his sleep on May 18, ...