The New Orleans City Council voted to give the police chief authority to shut down nuisance businesses that could be contributing to the city’s crime crisis.
The “padlock law provides for a business to be shut down for up to two years and possibly face civil penalties if it has been declared a nuisance by a civil court judge, and padlocked by police. The statute is modeled after a similar law, put in place in Baltimore, by former New Orleans police chief Michael Harrison.
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