Nola Connection

A Heated Discussion Was Sparked To Improve Juvenile Justice Services In New Orleans

In a heated city council meeting in New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell's criminal justice coordinators discussed the allocation of over $4 million in unspent federal funds intended for juvenile justice improvements. The proposed plan included funding for a new juvenile assessment center and restorative justice initiatives. City Council President Helena Moreno advocated for real-time monitoring of juvenile offenders, highlighting public safety concerns after a recent tragic incident involving a 15-year-old. The council is committed to exploring both proposals before deciding on the fund’s allocation.

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Duration:: 10m
Broadcast on:: 28 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Let me cut this off. Our juvenile system, man, the criminals, the juvenile, the delinquents, whatever you want to call them, they are cutting up and it's something that needs to be done. Why it's taking so long to try to address this? I don't know. But in New Orleans, the council, city council debates in real time about electronic monitoring for juvenile offenders. The mayor, LaToria Contrell, Vappy, criminal justice coordinators, appeared before a city council committed to discuss how they intend to use more than 4 million in unspent federal funding. The bulk of the money will be spent on a juvenile assessment center for the justice program. Now, the city council had another idea. City council president Helene Morino had another idea. She says there appears to be this real need for real time monitoring monitoring for juveniles. Morino said, I think we have an opportunity here using some of this money. Now, what she's talking about is she says the public wants to be safe. City council member Leslie Harris said, we do not want to hear about another time someone removing their monitor and then going out and shooting someone in the face or killing them. Now, what they speak enough is, in June, in the French Quarter, a French Quarter tour guy named Christy Thibodeau, that lets you know she was a New Orleans native right there. Thibodeau, that was her name, was allegedly shot and killed on St. Peter Street by a 15-year-old. He had been placed on the ankle monitor for a previous offense, but he was able to take it off. Now, why was he able to take it off? No one knew about it, but here it go. Morino, and Orleans District Attorney, Jason Williams, and state leaders have been in discussion about a new $2 million juvenile monitoring program in the city. The pilot program will monitor about 200 juvenile offenders in real time. Yeah, in real time. The city's office of youth and family's director and criminal justice coordinator were caught off by a guard, or caught off guard by the proposal. It was caught off guard. It was a big argument in the city council meeting. And basically, he said, I didn't know anything about it. I didn't know anything about it. But I'm happy, as I've always stated before in every email that I sent that I'm happy to discuss, I'm happy to talk if I'm invited to the table. D.A. Williams said, if no one is watching the monitor, no juvenile should be placed on an ankle bracelet. You have a good point. Someone has to watch the monitor. What is the use of an ankle bracelet program if no one watching the monitor? That makes sense. Basically, and then he went on and said, we need to focus on fixing this problem yesterday. I continue to do my part. Morino maintains the city council is committed to both the assessment center and real time monitoring. So now they have an argument about the assessment center and monitoring. Now, the no monitoring of juveniles and ankle bracelets, no telling how long that's been going on. No telling. But soon this tourist, she was not a tourist. She was a tour guide in the French quarters. Killed by a young juvenile that's supposed to have been on the ankle monitor and took it off. Yeah, now it's a rush for this. My opinion, it should have been a rush. Why are you going to have an ankle bracelet program without anyone watching? But see, the problem is this. Some politics go. If we don't need it, if we haven't had a serious problem because of it's sold, we know of. Because let me tell you something. There's a lot of crimes that happen in New Orleans by juveniles. And I guarantee you, some of them have supposed to have been on the ankle monitor. You think this dude just was the genius to just say, hey, let me take all my ankle monitor, commit a crime. No, it's been going on. It's been going on. But until we get exposed, that's when we do something about it. That is the problem with politics today. We shouldn't wait until we are exposed or something tragic happened because this lady probably could be here today. Her family could be enjoying her company today if someone would have been monitoring those ankle bracelets. So I think that's important. Now, before it's the assessment center, I will come back and discuss what is that? If they talked about, what is it? Is it something like a center to, I'm guessing, teach them a tree, get them off the streets? That's good, too. We can use both. We also need someone monitoring those ankle bracelets. We also-- now, for us, the DA and the people notifying. Notifying the president of the city council, whoever-- I mean, the youth and family director and criminal justice coordinator were caught up guard, like they say. I don't know how that goes. That happens. I'm with an organization that's sometimes manhood. Look, if you don't know how to communicate, sometimes people move on. Sometimes people don't feel like. Some people say, sometimes people feel like you're not accessible. We don't see you. You need to be around, out of sight, out of mind. No one is going to think about contacting you and telling you our ideas if you're not around. If you're not in our presence, if you're not socializing, that's what it could be. I don't know, or it could be blatant disrespect. But the point is, we definitely, definitely need someone monitoring those ankle bracelets. Like he said, it doesn't make sense to even put them on an ankle bracelet. For what? It's obvious that these kids know to take them off. It's obvious that they've been taking them off. And nothing ever happened. They take them off, commit a crime, come back, put it on. It's obvious. So we need someone monitoring that. The assessment center, it's cool. It's cool. But at this point, we need something to make it safe now. That could be something good for the future or near future. But we need something to make New Orleans safer now, right now. That's just what it is. That's what it is. And that's all I have to say. Let me tell you, for those who have apple podcast, look up the NOLA connection. If you own Facebook, follow me on the NOLA connection. It's a brand new page. I need my followers, same as you two. Need the followers, go follow me. But if you have apple podcasts on all major streaming networks, it's definitely on this. We need to get New Orleans together. Louisiana, if you have any story, you want to be told or get a story out. You could contact me at jetsetnoble@gmail.com. That's J-E-T-S-E-T Noble N-O-B-L-E at gmail.com. And we can discuss it because us together, we have to get New Orleans straight. And I'm trying to build this community from the ground up. So if you listen to this, let's build it. We have to get New Orleans straight. 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