New Orleans clerk of court staff stood ankle-deep in a massive landfill, digging through mounds of trash, to salvage court records that the city erroneously discarded. As photos surfaced online — ...

The Orleans Parish Clerk of Criminal Court has called for an investigation into the "catastrophic failure" of removing ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill commented on videos of Clerk Darren Lombard and others rummaging through mounds of ...

Gov. Jeff Landry has called on the Louisiana State Police to investigate court documents dumped in a landfill in New Orleans.

He sent a letter to Louisiana State Police Superintendent Colonel Robert Hodges ordering an investigation into the matter.

Concern is being raised after New Orleans city officials reportedly moved and in one case destroyed court documents, some of ...

On Friday, according to Lombard, one container, filled with official clerk record had been dumped into a debris field and ...

In a letter penned to the Louisiana State Police, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is ordering them to investigate the illegal dumping of case files from the Orleans Parish Criminal Court.

Sensitive criminal court documents were reportedly mishandled and discarded by city workers without approval, according to ...

So far, about 60 cases of court files have been recovered from the landfill and are being returned to the Public Works site; however, the total amount dumped is unknown. Lombard believes there are ...