A New Orleans area levee board met behind closed doors this week to discuss an investigation by the state attorney general, a move open-government lawyers say may have violated state law.
The board voted at a May 12 meeting to request that Attorney General Liz Murrill make public an investigative report within 30 days into alleged wrongdoing at the flood protection agency, officially called the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East. Those 30 days came and went, and the report has not been made public.
Murrill says the flood protection authority, responsible for overseeing much of the metro area’s $14.5 billion flood control system, is holding up the report. Board members at the flood agency say Murrill has delayed releasing it…