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  • Search results for: orleans sheriff

36 Search Results Found For: "orleans sheriff"

  • Early voting for New Orleans City Council, sheriff, library millage starts Saturday

    Early voting in the Dec. 11 runoff elections for New Orleans City Council, Sheriff and Clerk of Criminal Court begins Saturday, and voters will also weigh in on tax propositions for the New Orleans Pu
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  • Better Governance Can Improve New Orleans’ Jail and Sustain Reforms

    OVERVIEW BGR’s report highlights how a more cooperative relationship between the Orleans Parish Sheriff and the City of New Orleans is essential to end more than 50 years of federal oversight of
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  • BGR Finds that Better Governance at the New Orleans Jail Can Support Reforms

    Today, the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) releases a report to assist local policymakers as they seek to end a 50-plus-year cycle of unconstitutional conditions at the New Orleans jail. The rep
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  • ‘They fear no consequences.’ NOPD chief, JPSO sheriff talk about crime spike, recruitment efforts

    Recruiting and keeping police officers remains a huge challenge for area law enforcement agencies, and will continue to be a problem until the perception of the job changes, Jefferson Parish Sheriff J
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  • A View from the Top: Insights on Law Enforcement in Orleans and Jefferson

    Today, the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) presented its first in-person Breakfast Briefing in more than two years. The event, made free to the public by First Horizon Bank and held in downtown
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  • Jefferson Parish voters approve new property tax increase for Sheriff’s Office pay raises

    Jefferson Parish residents voted Saturday to approve a 7-mill property tax increase that will generate an additional $28 million for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Joe Lopinto had pi
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  • BGR Analyzes Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Tax on the April 30 Ballot

    NEW ORLEANS — From the Bureau of Governmental Research: BGR has released a new report titled “On the Ballot: Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Tax, April 30, 2022.” The report is intended to h
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  • Jefferson Parish voters set to decide on millage increase to fund sheriff’s office hiring, raises

    When Jefferson Parish voters head to the ballot box on Saturday, April 30, they’ll decide on a potential millage increase put forward by Sheriff Joseph Lopinto to fund the hiring of nearly 250 posit
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  • 7-mill tax pushed by Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto gets BGR backing. See what they said

    Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto’s proposed 7-mill property tax to fund employee raises has picked up the backing of the Bureau of Governmental Research, which agreed with Lopinto’s as
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  • Stephanie Grace: Criminal justice issues drive election, but results show a bigger malaise in Orleans

    When Marlin Gusman was elected to the New Orleans City Council more than two decades ago, Oliver Thomas was already there. Their paths would diverge, with Gusman moving up to run the city’s jail for
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