Richard Twiggs

Independent

Additionally, we will invest in our educators by ensuring that teachers are paid competitive salaries (20%-25% raises), given proper resources, and supported with professional development to guarantee the best possible education for our students.

We will create legislation(s) that will hold our elected officials accountable, such as, if a city official is caught lying, in their official capacity, that they will be immediately terminated (this will apply strictly to court proceedings / legal investigations). Accountability will be the foundation of our justice system. We must restore public confidence in City Hall.

As part of our anti-corruption reform, we will work to root out corruption through technological and common-sense means. Additionally, we will launch investigations into the Bourbon Street Massacre, Hard Rock Casino Disaster, Hurricane Katrina Funds, Sewerage and Waterboard Corruption, etc. And we will bring legal action against those who have harmed the integrity of our systems.

We will expand mental health services by integrating them directly into public services, such as law enforcement and community health programs. Addiction and adolescent mental health initiatives will be prioritized to ensure that those who need help most receive it.

Additionally, we will create a Mental Health Office in the New Orleans Health Department. We will fight for mental health professionals in New Orleans to be paid at the national standard, supporting both patients and providers. Access to quality healthcare, both mental and medical, will no longer be a privilege—it will be a right. We will focus on reducing the prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity, which are increasingly affecting New Orleans residents.

We will implement community policing programs-focused crime prevention strategies, working closely with law enforcement while integrating mental health professionals into our public safety systems.

We’ll conduct a detailed audit of the charter school experiment, exposing the failures of the system post-Hurricane Katrina and guiding a return to public control and, if necessary, taking legal action against those who have profited from taking advantage of our system.

Every child in New Orleans deserves access to a high-quality education, no matter where they live. We will aggressively rebuild our public school system, bringing back neighborhood schools and ensuring improved transportation so that every student can easily attend school.

We will abolish the Sheriff's Office (saving tax payers countless dollars from funding a wasteful department) and merge it with NOPD.