Overview

• Orleans Parish Clerk Darren Lombard’s team has retrieved portions of court records from the Gentilly landfill but anticipates missing documents
• Public Works crews mistakenly disposed of at least one container holding decades of criminal case files, including murder and rape records dating to the 1950s
• State law mandates that criminal prosecution records be kept for three years after appeals, raising questions about the handling of older and capital-case files
• Lombard has formally sought bond funds to convert the vacant Community Correctional Center into a dedicated archival facility
• Attorney General Liz Murrill has demanded an explanation and signaled a possible investigation while City Hall has declined to comment