Funds released to continue blue light patrols in French Quarter Share Updated: 3:44 PM CST Feb 26, 2021 WDSU Digital Team Share Updated: 3:44 PM CST Feb 26, 2021
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Show Transcript everybody. Thank you so much for joining us here today. Uh, I guess I ll go ahead and spell my name. J O s H U A last name. Cox C o X c o x. Ah, we re here today because on Monday we told you that there was a mess. The French Quarter management district promised to keep the blue light patrols that everyone loves in the quarter going with private dollars from January through at least March. They failed to do that. Uh And so on Monday, we told you that we were doing everything in our power to fix that. Well, today I m happy to say that we ve done that on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. The blue light patrols are going to start up again, and I would like to thank a couple of people who made that happen. First, I d like to thank Councilwoman Palmer, who is th
French Quarter task force is working to earn money for the blue lights patrol in order to keep the quarter safe.
“We know that supplemental security is critical for the quarter and so we are really trying to figure out what that path forward looks like,” Author: Paul Murphy / Eyewitness News Published: 6:32 PM CST December 11, 2020 Updated: 6:32 PM CST December 11, 2020
NEW ORLEANS The future of the French Quarter task force is limbo.
Vieux Carre voters defeated the renewal of a quarter-cent tax sales tax that funded the program which boosted police in the quarter with off-duty NOPD officers.
Money for the “blue light” patrols runs out at the end of the year.