wdsu.com Aubry Killion A nonprofit started by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has issued a repayment to the city after an Office of the Inspector General report brought concerns forward about the organization’s spending. Continue Reading
BY DAVID HAMMER | WWL-TV FEB 14, 2023 – 7:00 PM Forward Together New Orleans, the nonprofit formed by Mayor LaToya Cantrell to pay for some of her signature social welfare programs, has returned more than $1 million in public money as it faces an Inspector General investigation and winds down its operations. Continue Reading
IG joins City Council members, two influential civic groups in calling for national search- New Orleans Inspector General Edward Michel urged Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Friday to conduct a national search for Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson’s successor. In a letter to the mayor, Michel advised appointing an interim superintendent to take the reins when Ferguson...
nola.com Matt Sledge After years of losing money on risky ventures, the New Orleans firefighters pension fund is making sounder investments, according to a new report from Inspector General Ed Michel’s office. Yet while it’s climbing out of its financial hole, the pension fund still hasn’t met all of its promises in a 2015 legal...
BY BEN MYERS | STAFF WRITER APR 27, 2022 – 6:46 PM The New Orleans City Council on Wednesday called on the city’s Office of Inspector General to investigate several initiatives advanced by Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration, while also ordering an immediate halt to distributions from a controversial land trust. Continue Reading
nola.com BY MATT SLEDGE | STAFF WRITER APR 7, 2022 – 4:00 AM The city’s new system for managing $1.1 billion in annual invoices is a big improvement over the problem-plagued system it replaced, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General, though New Orleans still fails to pay some of its bills...
wdsu.com Sherman Desselle According to the Office of the Inspector General, an evaluation conducted on the firefighter pension and relief fund revealed that it was lacking for first responders. The purpose of the report was to determine whether the pension fund’s operations were best serving firefighters. Continue Reading
Nola.com Matt Sledge Filling potholes that shake, rattle and roll drivers has often been viewed as one of the most basic functions of city government. But in New Orleans, it takes an average of 204 days before the Department of Public Works paves over potholes reported through 311, according to a report released Thursday by...
wwwtv.com Letitia Walker NEW ORLEANS — The Office of the Inspector General in New Orleans has released a report critical of the Department of Public Works, specifically when dealing with complaints about potholes. The agency looked at service requests from January of 2019 through May of 2021 that were submitted via NOLA-311. Continue Reading
wdsu.com Gabbi King NEW ORLEANS — Analysis of NOLA-311 pothole data revealed that the city of New Orleans’ response to pothole-related service requests was significantly slower than that of other metropolitan areas around the country, the Office of the Inspector General said Thursday. According to the data, on average the Department of Public Works took...
