Last year, producers with 44 Blue, the California company behind A&E’s "Homicide Squad: New Orleans" dropped off a hard drive to police to be loaded with elements of murder case files: crime scene photos, officer body-worn camera footage, video from the city's Real Time Crime Center video and images of victims and suspects.

The New Orleans Police Department reviewed the materials for evidence that could jeopardize an investigation. But the transfer also included footage from the community camera network Project NOLA that its director, Bryan Lagarde, said he'd flatly refused to give to the show's producers when they'd asked in early 2024.

The result has been a clash that has chilled the normally productive relations between Project NOLA and the NOPD.

Lagarde has cut back the NOPD's acces

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