Katie Moore Investigation: Hidden Dangers

More than half of all the building inspections for the City of New Orleans in 2020 were not done by city officials, but inspectors working for private, third-party inspection companies.

Many of those inspectors are employed by cities and parishes outside the city, but they do inspections in New Orleans for third-party companies after hours.

The top building official for the city of Kenner, James Mohamad, was flagged by the City of New Orleans for problems with inspections he submitted while moonlighting for a third-party inspection company.

City officials identified two dozen problem inspections in October 2019, shortly after the Hard Rock Hotel construction site collapse that crushed three workers.