nola.com BY BEN MYERS | Staff writer New Orleans mayors will no longer have access to a city-controlled apartment in Jackson Square after City Council members on Thursday quashed Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s veto of an ordinance ending the longtime perk. With a 5-2 vote, the City Council upheld a measure requiring that the French Market...
wdsu.com Updated: 7:38 PM CDT Apr 27, 2023 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter A call for more supervision over those protecting the New Orleans mayor, the Office of Inspector General just released a report raising concerns over a lack of procedure in place for Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s executive detail. “We determined that the executive protection team did...
Author: WWL Staff; Published: 5:08 PM CDT March 15, 2023; Updated: 5:43 PM CDT March 15, 2023 In a letter to the mayor and the French Market Corporation, Inspector General Ed Michel stated that there is awaiting list of over 300 for an apartment at the Pontalba and that a market rate rental would be close...
WDSU.com Kourtney Williams, Updated: 11:53 PM CDT Mar 15, 2023 The Office of the Inspector General released a letter after looking into reports of the apartment being used as a residence by Cantrell. “The OIG recommends that the city relinquish the apartment to the French Quarter Market Corporation to rent to the public. This would...
BY MATT SLEDGE | STAFF WRITER; MAR 15, 2023 – 4:15 PM For decades, chief executives of New Orleans have kept a foothold in the French Quarter in the form of a special “mayor’s apartment” in the Upper Pontalba Building. But after the revelation last year that Mayor LaToya Cantrell was repeatedly spending hours of her day...
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 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...
City of New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans Department of Public Works’ Parking and Towing Divisions today announced that changes to parking enforcement for vehicles with mobility impaired parking credentials will begin Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. Following recommendation from the New Orleans Office of Inspector General, the Parking Division will begin fully...
