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New Orleans Police Seek Arrest of Dispatcher Under Novel Criminal Charge

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She was charged under Louisiana law with malfeasance in office. The statute itself reads like criminalized negligence. The mens rea element is merely eliminating involuntary failures like illness or force in the failure to perform. The report was taken on August 23, 2021.”. What followed was relatively rare.