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Nov 18, 2024 · Invoices show that Jackson charged OJJ nearly $2 million dollars over the past year to house juveniles in the jail, despite grave allegations of abuse and mistreatment. Though its score climbed a little, the NOLA Public Schools district received the same grade, a C, from the state of Louisiana for ...
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The United Nations Global Plastics Treaty: validating the struggles …
3 days ago · In mid-November, days before this week’s final United Nations meeting to discuss plastic pollution, the Biden Administration declared that it no longer supported a cap on new plastic production, as part of a global treaty to protect environmental and human health.. The administration’s complete reversal of its position was noted by a delegation of Louisiana environmental advocates ...
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Nov 15, 2019 · The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.
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Oct 21, 2021 · Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021 “What’s up with these cameras?” That’s what Dee Dee Green remembers thinking the first time she saw one of New Orleans’ police surveillance cameras in 2018, flashing red and blue lights over a community garden she manages in the city’s Hollygrove neighborhood.
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Nov 14, 2024 · The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.
Neighborhoods Watched: Safety
Oct 21, 2021 · Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021. Clint Carter was suffering from diabetic nerve pain and waiting for a ride to the hospital when he was arrested in June 2018, he told The Lens later that year during a phone call from the Avoyelles Correctional Center in Cottonport, about three hours northwest of New Orleans.
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May 25, 2023 · The decision by District Attorney Jason William to charge the teens as adults was controversial, if not surprising. During his campaign for DA, Williams promised to keep all cases involving kids in juvenile court, and frequently cited research on youth brain development that indicates kids are more susceptible to peer pressure, more likely to …
Neighborhoods Watched: The Toolbox - The Lens
Oct 21, 2021 · Motorola CommandCentral. The Motorola CommandCentral package is a video/data integration and analytics software suite that includes CommandCentral Aware, CommandCentral Analytics and CommandCentral Predictive.. CommandCentral Aware is the central part of the Motorola software package. It integrates video feeds, 911 data, patrol vehicle GPS information and more onto a single interface for RTCC ...
Behind The Lens episode 256: ‘A Tricky Endeavor’
Nov 15, 2024 · This week on Behind The Lens, as the federal government announces a rule to eliminate all lead pipes within the next decade, tests by local nonprofit The Water Collaborative found lead in drinking water at 88% of New Orleans homes tested.. A proposed Biden-administration regulation change could bar the state from using federal dollars for child-protective investigations, controversial crisis ...