NEW ORLEANS, LA —  The New Orleans City Council is introducing an online portal for citizens to report potential abuse from federal immigration officers. Following recent reports of escalating immigration enforcement in the Greater New Orleans area, the City Council created the Know Your Rights webpage to help citizens report potential abuse by federal agents and educate themselves on their rights when interacting with agencies such as Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol.

NEW ORLEANS, LA — The New Orleans City Council today advanced a balanced budget framework put forward by Mayor-elect Helena Moreno and the City Council, including current Budget Chair Joe Giarrusso and 2026 Budget Chair Lesli Harris to address the City’s significant fiscal challenges and ensure continuity of essential services.

NEW ORLEANS, Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | Today, the New Orleans City Council held a special meeting to introduce legislation to place guardrails on the proposed $125 million of revenue bonds that will be used to pay for City employees and to ensure the budget passed by the Council is followed. In addition, the Council will grant the Louisiana Legislative Auditor access to review the City’s finances from 2022 and beyond, and to review the City’s financial position regularly. Understating the urgency and gravity of the City’s finances, the City Council is proactively legislating solutions to show fiscal transparency and accountability.

NEW ORLEANS, LA — The City secured a landmark victory in Federal Court today. The Honorable Judge Zainey dismissed Airbnb’s lawsuit with prejudice for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. The lawsuit alleged that the City’s 2023 short-term rental laws—creating non-commercial short-term rental permits—violated property owners’ constitutional rights. Additionally, the platform claimed the City’s regulations also violated the platform’s constitutional rights as well as federal laws. 

NEW ORLEANS, LA - Councilmembers JP Morrell and Helena Moreno are standing with the Lower 9th Ward community and stating their opposition to the Alabo Street Grain Terminal through a City Council resolution that will be heard at next week’s meeting. Under the agreement made between the Port of New Orleans and Sunrise Foods International, negotiated without any community input, a 10-car train would transport grain through residential neighborhoods with little plans for pest and dust mitigation.

Neighbors have expressed concerns regarding the potential negative impacts of the Alabo Street Sunrise Food grain terminal, including but not limited to: environmental concerns, traffic and safety issues, community displacement, and lack of community engagement. The resolution expresses the need for Sunrise Foods to move to an alternative location.