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Press Release - May 17, 2012

LPDB Demands N.O. Traffic Court Remit Fees Owed To Public Defender Office

BATON ROUGE – Today the Louisiana Public Defender Board (LPDB) requested that the New Orleans Traffic Court remit the monies that it owes to the Orleans Public Defenders (OPD), implement the recommendations contained in the May 11, 2012 LaPorte forensic audit report, and adopt a policy that will ensure that the Traffic Court timely pays the monies that it collects on OPD’s behalf from this point going forward...

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