The New Orleans Inspector General released a new audit Thursday that found city building inspectors failed to show up for safety inspections at construction sites 20% of the time between April 2019 and March 2020.
The report echoes the findings of a joint WWL-TV/Times-Picayune investigation conducted in January and February 2020, which found the same 20% no-show rate by reviewing the GPS tracking data from city inspectors’ city vehicles and comparing those with the inspection reports they filed.