#TheLensNola🔍 A series by Louisiana for Children’s Rights, in partnership with The Lens, that elevates the voices and experiences of Black youth currently or formerly detained in the Orleans Parish juvenile jail. ✍️ Cierra Chenier Read full article: thelensnola.org/2026/08/11/t...

Friday, The Lens sued GOHSEP to release its contract with ICE establishing immigrant detention wing in Angola. GOHSEP called the document "proprietary." But government contract terms aren't trade secrets. Grateful to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for support.

#TheLensNola🔍 No single policy stands out among all the new state and districts policies governing technology. What's notable is how quickly the conversation around education and technology has changed. ✍️ The Conversation US Full article 🔗: buff.ly/hnPc4Th

#OPINION Act 141 aims to protect Louisiana educators by removing students who assault school employees. ✍️ Julienne Louis-Anderson Full article 🔗: thelensnola.org/2026/08/06/l... #studentteacherviolence #act141 #TheLensNola🔍

#TheLensNola🔍 Despite 2023 law, eligible Louisiana residents must still petition and wait to clear old criminal records instead of sealing them automatically, like 14 other states do. ✍️ Bernard Smith Read full article: buff.ly/fYYhj1f #criminalrecords #expungement

#TheLensNola🔍 More than 888,000 Louisiana residents struggle with hunger as SNAP cuts and reduced federal funding place growing pressure on families, seniors, people with disabilities and food banks. ✍️ Bill Quigley Read full story: buff.ly/5DAzrTi

#TheLensNola🔍 New Orleans serves about 84% of 4-year-olds from low-income families. That leaves many New Orleans children entering kindergarten without necessary skills, and hundreds of parents who are not able to work much ✍️Vivi Smilgius Full story: thelensnola.org/2026/08/03/p...

#BehindTheLensPodcast🎙️ Black defendants face major barriers to securing representative juries, while a Lower Ninth Ward family farm wins a settlement after its property was mistakenly treated with pesticides. 🎤 Carolyne Heldman Listen where you get your podcasts🎧

#TheLensNola🔍 Musicians in bands at Angola often come from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, and from the nearby Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of the blues. ✍️ Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project Full story 🔗: buff.ly/Tm9acEM #angolaprison #jazzandblues

#TheLensNola🔍 A quarter of Louisiana's marketplace enrollees from 2025 no longer have coverage in 2026. ✍️ Shalina Chatlani, Stateline Full story 🔗: buff.ly/Y0U1kvH #obamacare #louisiana #affordablecareact

#OPINION The court’s decision puts the Delfin LNG deepwater export terminal one step closer to construction, which is extremely troubling… ✍️ Lauren Parker, The Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute Read article: thelensnola.org/2026/07/30/t...

#TheLensNola🔍 It’s easy to explain Entergy’s frequent equipment failures by simply taking a drive around New Orleans, where leaning light poles hung with sagging wires and rusting equipment line many streets… ✍️Vivi Smilgius Full article 🔗: thelensnola.org/2026/07/29/w...

#TheLensNola🔍 Louisiana deserves a correctional system that prepares people for successful re-entry, an agricultural system built on dignity rather than exploitation… ✍️Ronald "DC" Reynolds and Keket Sanders Full article 🔗: thelensnola.org/2026/07/28/t...

#TheLensNola🔍 Glenn Davis instinctively connected his predominantly white jury and his wrongful verdict. His instincts are supported by jury-deliberation studies, which shows that non-diverse juries like his err more often. ✍️Bernard Smith Full story: buff.ly/7jRCXz1

#TheLensNola🔍 In his research, Dr. Sharven Taghavi, a Tulane trauma surgeon, found a "clear association" between hunger and gun violence… ✍️Fairriona Magee, The Trace Full article: buff.ly/ErFXQgN

#OPINION As Louisiana’s petrochemical industrial facilities expand, the children that live near them are faced with long-term health and developmental impacts. ✍️ Kanitra Caston, MS, CNP Full article 🔗: buff.ly/Lj2EUUl #industrialpollution #learningdisability #kids

#OPINION After being kicked out of her house and expelled from school, a 16-year-old girl, Mea, learns to survive on her own. ✍️ Andrea Hagan Full article: buff.ly/PyvMCzl #childabuse #criminaljusticesystem #juveniledetention #TheLensNola🔍

#TheLensNola An Orkin man went to the wrong address, fogged Fat River Farm in the Lower 9th Ward with pesticides, ruined the farm’s ability to market its produce as organic, and upset the garden’s natural balance. ✍️La’Shance Perry Read full article: thelensnola.org/2026/07/22/j...

#TheLensNola🔍 The winners include three first places. ✍️ Mark Moseley Full article: buff.ly/GTgpNOr #pressclubawards #firstplace #neworleans

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#Environment The air monitors are often miles from its biggest polluters and residents have little way of knowing what they’re breathing. That’s no accident. ✍️ Ames Alexander, Floodlight Full article: thelensnola.org/2026/07/20/l... #toxicair #airmonitor #louisiana #TheLensNola🔍

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#TheLensNola🔍 As Meta’s massive AI data center, the most expensive in the nation, transforms rural Richland Parish, Louisiana's Black and white churches are divided… ✍️ Adam Mahoney, Capital B Full story: thelensnola.org/2026/07/17/m...

#OPINION If a new federal rule is enacted, the administration could deny research grant applications related to life-saving issues like vaccine safety, climate science, and LGBTQ+ health. ✍️ By Kristie Ellickson, Union of Concerned Scientists Story 🔗: thelensnola.org/2026/07/16/s...

#TheLensNola🔍 A police search of the 14-year-old's phone uncovered no proof of a threat, sparking outrage from local activists over the school's response. ✍️ Vivi Smilgius Full story 🔗: thelensnola.org/2026/07/15/h...

#OPINION A federal judge agreed that Angola works men into the ground in unconstitutional heat. Then he said he could not make it stop. “The fields did not change,” writes Andrea Hagan. ✍️ Andrea Hagan Full story 🔗: buff.ly/YoV5DSV

#TheLensNola🔍 Greg Bright served 27.5 wrongful years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He is now facing financial hardship, because his innocence compensation ended in September. ✍️ Bernard Smith Full article: thelensnola.org/2026/07/13/v... #senatebill125 #exoneree #louisiana

#TheLensNola🔍 Incoming principal Kendall McManus-Thomas returns to Easton as a pathbreaker who grew up in pre-Katrina schools, experienced the disaster and all of its chaos as a displaced high school student… ✍️Vivi Smilgius Read story: thelensnola.org/2026/07/07/a... #repost

#TheLensNola🔍 As witnesses from Baton Rouge join a federal lawsuit, a Louisiana immigration judge instructs her staff to allow the public to observe court hearings. Denials were never court policy… ✍️ Delaney Nolan and Katy Reckdahl Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/1zqXc44

#TheLensNola Advocates say stricter immigration documentation requirements ignore the realities of abuse, prompting concerns that victims will be denied protection. ✍️Nada Hassanein, Stateline Full story 🔗: thelensnola.org/2026/07/09/n...