NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans voters will decide on October 11 on a proposed amendment to the city’s Home Rule Charter that would add “conviction history” to the list of protected classes in the city’s Bill of Rights.
The ballot language reads:
“Shall Article II, Section 2-202(6) of the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans be amended to provide that no law shall arbitrarily and unreasonably discriminate against a person based on conviction history?”…