Charles Maldonado

New Orleans

Managing Editor at Verite

Managing editor at @veritenewsnola. Previously: Editor at @thelensnola. [email protected]

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Judge blocks enforcement of police buffer zone law

Jan 31, 2025 | veritenews.org | Charles Maldonado

A federal judge on Friday (Jan. 31) temporarily blocked enforcement of a state law, passed last year, that creates a buffer zone around police, making it a criminal offense to come within 25 feet of a working officer after being ordered to step back. The preliminary injunction was issued in response to a lawsuit filed in July by six media companies, including Verite News’ parent company Deep South Today, asking for the law to be blocked.
Judge OKs two-year offramp for NOPD consent decree

Jan 14, 2025 | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu |Charles Maldonado

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that it can police itself, a judge ruled Tuesday (Jan. 14). Since 2013, the NOPD has been under an expansive consent decree, intended to reshape virtually every aspect of the agency, with court-appointed monitors closely tracking its progress. Now, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan’s ruling will allow the department to enter a two-year “sustainment” period — effective immediately.
After Bourbon terror attack, council opens investigation into French Quarter security

Jan 9, 2025 | veritenews.org | Charles Maldonado

The New Orleans City Council launched a formal investigation on Thursday (Jan. 9) into the city’s handling of its street barrier systems, which are meant to deter the type of terrorist attack that occurred on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day. The investigation, announced last week, is meant to determine how the city’s busiest tourist thoroughfare was left without adequate physical barriers on Jan. 1, allowing Shamsud-Din Jabbar to plow into scores of pedestrians celebrating the holiday.
Council to hold first meeting on Bourbon truck attack

Jan 7, 2025 | veritenews.org | Charles Maldonado

As concerns have mounted over New Orleans’ anti-terrorism protocols in light of last week’s deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street, local and state officials have both promised official investigations. This week, the New Orleans City Council, which announced its own investigation on Friday, is set to hold its first hearing on the attack. On Wednesday (Jan.
On first day of Taylor Swift concerts, judge bars state from conducting further encampment sweeps

Oct 25, 2024 | veritenews.org | Charles Maldonado

An Orleans Parish judge on Friday (Oct. 25) ordered the Louisiana State Police to halt its sweeps of homeless encampments around New Orleans, which began on Wednesday in advance of this weekend’s Taylor Swift concerts in the Superdome.
La. civics and voting guide; podcast explores intersection of food and culture; descendants of iconic artist Clementine Hunter share her story

Sep 23, 2024 | wwno.org | Karen Henderson |Charles Maldonado

The November elections are less than two months away, and Verite News in New Orleans recently launched a guide on voter registration, ballot propositions and news coverage. The guide was launched in partnership with Verite’s sister newsroom, Mississippi Today. Verite’s Managing Editor Charles Maldonado joins us now for more on this guide and the information it offers. The LSU Museum of Art is currently working on an oral history project on Clementine Hunter.
Okla Jones II was first Black city attorney in N.O. and a respected jurist

Aug 12, 2024 | veritenews.org | Tammy C. Barney |Charles Maldonado

As a quiet man devoted to helping others, Okla Jones II had many accomplishments in his legal career. He not only served as New Orleans’ first Black city attorney, but he also was elected as a Civil District Court judge, and was appointed as a federal judge by President Bill Clinton. According to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Jones was a hardworking, competent and fair judge. “Judge Jones was in constant study.
Appellate court hears arguments to remove two La. Supreme Court candidates

Aug 8, 2024 | veritenews.org | Julie O’Donoghue |Charles Maldonado

Louisiana’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal must decide before Thursday evening whether all three candidates in the newly created majority-Black election district for the Louisiana Supreme Court can stay in the race. All 12 judges on the appellate court presided over a short hearing Wednesday afternoon in the lawsuit seeking to throw two of three Supreme Court candidates in District 2 off the Nov. 5 ballot.
Educators at French immersion charter school vote overwhelmingly to unionize

May 14, 2024 | veritenews.org | Charles Maldonado

With an overwhelming majority, educators at Lycée Français De La Nouvelle-Orléans voted 52 to 12 in favor of unionization in an election held by the National Labor Relations Board on Monday (May 13), making the French immersion school the latest New Orleans charter school to organize with the United Teachers of New Orleans. As a small group of educators and administrators tallied votes at the Priestley campus of the school, students and parents in support of the union crowded outside in the rain.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protestors occupy Tulane campus, 6 arrested

Apr 30, 2024 | lailluminator.com | Charles Maldonado |Michelle Liu |Drew Costley

NEW ORLEANS — Hundreds of protesters calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Gaza occupied a portion of Tulane University’s campus on Monday, setting up tents along St. Charles Avenue on a campus lawn in front of Gibson Hall and refusing to move despite demands from police. The protest, organized by Tulane and Loyola University student groups, was similar to those that have cropped up at campuses across the country over the past several weeks.