The three-and-a-half year tenure of Kyshun Webster as director of New Orleans juvenile lockup was plagued by spotty attendance, questionable spending and an attempt to get the facility to take his ailing pet dog and pay hefty veterinary expenses, according to an investigative report released Tuesday by the city’s Office of Inspector General. Continue Reading
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%...
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...
fox8live.com Olivia Vidal NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The city of New Orleans took at least six months on average to resolve most pothole complaints while other service requests remained pending indefinitely, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General. According to the OIG’s findings, the city’s response to thousands of pothole service requests was...
