New Orleans clerk of court staff stood ankle-deep in a massive landfill, digging through mounds of trash, to salvage court records that the city erroneously discarded.

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse. The court system collapsed in the aftermath of the storm.Katrina caused ...

In a statement, Clerk of Criminal District Court Darren Lombard blasted the city for an “egregious breach of responsibility and negligence” of public records. Photos shared by the criminal clerk of ...