New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, right, joins Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas, left, and City Council member Jon Johnson, at opening of new 7th District police station in New Orleans East. Landrieu announced the start of citizen advisory boards.
Credit Eileen Fleming / WWNO
New 7th District police station opens in New Orleans East.
The New Orleans Police Department will no longer release the criminal records of murder victims. The move comes after complaints that the policy only added to the stress of mourning families.
A non-profit civil rights group is organizing young men to test the city's new 8 p.m. curfew for those 16 years old or younger. Eileen Fleming reports the effort is aimed at challenging the new restriction.
The Louisiana Justice Institute is sending what attorney Tracie Washington says are testers of the 8 p.m. curfew.
The New Orleans City Council has approved an 8 p.m. weekend curfew for 16-year-olds and those younger in the French Quarter and in the area around Frenchmen Street in the Faubourg Marigny.
The move comes as officials try to curb shootings involving minors. Mayor Mitch Landrieu says he supports the move.
