Innocence Project New Orleans v. New Orleans Police Department

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

_]/The Innocence Project of New Orleans, a non-profit law firm which seeks to exonerate wrongfully convicted persons, submitted a public records request to the New Orleans Police Department through its records custodian, Superintendent Roñal Serpas. The records sought by the Innocence Project pertained to the police investigation and arrest of Bennie Brown, whose felony conviction became final in 1993. Superintendent Serpas, however, did not respond to this request within the statutorily-required three-day period. Following the informal, but documented efforts of the…