NOPD to Host Public Meetings for Presentation, Feedback on Consent Decree Sustainment Plan

The NOPD will host an upcoming series of public meetings to both present and received public feedback on a proposed sustainment plan for its federal consent decree.

On September 27, 2024, the NOPD and the Department of Justice filed a joint motion requesting that U.S. District Court Judge Susie Morgan permit the City of New Orleans and the NOPD enter a sustainment period of compliance with the consent decree. If approved, a two-year sustainment period would begin. The Court is currently amid a 45-day period of review for the request.

The NOPD's public meetings will be held in each of the department's eight field district stations, except for the First District. A presentation on the sustainment plan was made on September 30 during a meeting of the First District's Police Community Advisory Board. The public is invited to each of these meetings, regardless of in which district they may reside:

• SECOND DISTRICT: Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. at the Second District station, 3401 Broadway Street.
• THIRD DISTRICT: Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. at the Third District station, 4650 Paris Avenue.
• FOURTH DISTRICT: Wednesday, October 9, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. at the Fourth District station, 3320 Wall Boulevard
• FIFTH DISTRICT: Monday, October 14, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. at the Fifth District station, 3900 North Claiborne Avenue
• SIXTH DISTRICT: Thursday, October 17, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. at the Sixth District station, 1930 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
• SEVENTH DISTRICT: Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. at the Seventh District station, 10101 Dwyer Road.
• EIGHTH DISTRICT: Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. at the Eighth District station, 334 Royal Street.

Approved on January 11, 2013, the consent decree is a broad, extensive blueprint for positive change, and it encompasses sweeping, department-wide reforms. An agreement between the City of New Orleans and the U.S. Department of Justice, the consent decree contains an array of separate tasks and goals detailed in more than 490 paragraphs and 110 pages; it reflects a shared commitment to effective, constitutional, and professional law enforcemen.

For more information on the NOPD's consent decree - including all regulations, official reports and court filings - visit https://nola.gov/nopd/nopd-consent-decree/.

Have a question or correction? Please email NOPD's Public Affairs Division at [email protected].