Richard A. Webster, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Traffic Court is overstaffed, underworked, over-budgeted and reliant on a funding system that threatens the impartiality of its judges, putting defendants’ constitutional rights at risk, according to a report Inspector General Ed Quatreveaux released Wednesday (July 29). Continue Reading

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A “broken system” allows repeat drunk drivers to remain on the road, according to the New Orleans Office of Inspector General. Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux says they found serious flaws in every step in the process, from arrest through prosecution, sentencing, probation, and closing of drunk driving cases in Orleans Parish....