Plan to fund off-duty police patrols in French Quarter will go to voters, council decides

BY JESSICA WILLIAMS | Staff writer Aug 20, 2020 – 10:55 am New Orleans City Council members agreed Thursday to ask voters to renew a sales tax that would pay off-duty New Orleans police officers to patrol the historic French Quarter.   For the past five years, the 0.24% tax has paid state troopers to monitor […]