On June 26, 2025, I filed a complaint with New Orleans’ Independent Police Monitor documenting systematic violations of New Orleans protections against mass surveillance. The evidence was damning: internal emails ordering Project NOLA software installations, collaboration records between NOPD and the private surveillance network, and officer device screenshots—all corroborated by the Washington Post’s May 2025 investigation.
The Public Integrity Bureau opened case 2025-0366-P on July 28, 2025. On November 26, 2025, Captain Sandra Contreras informed me the investigation was complete. NOPD policy mandates completed investigations be released within 10 business days. That deadline passed December 10, 2025. PIB also has a hard 150-day maximum from case creation to release findings—expired December 25, 2025.
Followed by the investigation completing on or before Nov 26, 2025:
Today is January 19, 2026. It has been 43 days since completion and 175 days since the case opened. In violation of their policies, NOPD refuses to release PIB findings for illegal mass surveillance in New Orleans.
This isn’t bureaucratic delay. This is obstruction. New Orleans deserves answers.
When a police department investigates itself for systematic civil rights violations and then buries the results by violating its own transparency policies, the message is clear: accountability is theater.
PIB completed this investigation on November 26, 2025. Every day they withhold these findings is another day NOPD and the City of New Orleans choose cover-up over transparency. Release the investigation. New Orleans has a right to know what its police department did with illegal surveillance technology—and what consequences, if any, will follow.
You can see the full case including emails and public records here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lNUFBD1YjhhueThGwNFUJQWIq-Z77nAK?usp=share_link
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