Qualified Leadership and Protection

Ensuring a living wage for OPSO employees, providing adequate resources for incarcerated individuals, prioritizing their mental and physical health, and ending the extraction of wealth from those in custody.

Maintaining equitable policies and procedures, focusing on hurricane preparedness and staff development, ensuring gender-affirming housing and healthcare, promoting civic engagement, and preventing in-custody deaths and violence.

Providing adequate training and resources for staff, ensuring compliance with the federal consent decree, and striving for a smaller, safer, and more humane jail environment.

Engaging in family reunification efforts, investing in transformative justice programs, recognizing that programs reduce recidivism, and focusing on the youth of New Orleans.

Recognizing the unique needs and concerns of different demographic groups within Orleans Parish.

Working closely with government agencies, community partners, activists, city leadership, providers, educators, and grantees focused on re-entry and reunification.