NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office will host a job fair from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 28 at the Orleans Justice Center.
The sheriff’s office is accepting applications for deputy sheriff.
OPSO has lowered the minimum age for applicants from 21 to 20 years of age.
Applicants must also have a high school diploma or GED from an accredited high school, a clean record, and have the ability to complete a P.O.S.T. correctional course and academy.
Applicants are asked to bring to the job fair a valid, state-issued identification card, Social Security card, birth certificate, and a high school diploma or greater. The Orleans Justice Center is located at 2800 Perdido St. The job fair will take place on the third floor.
Visit www.opso.us for additional information, or call OPSO’s Human Resources Department at 504-202-9427.
The job fair comes the week after Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman agreed to having an compliance director take over day-to-day operations of the Orleans Parish Jail. That move was announced after the U.S. Justice Department and an advocacy group representing inmates at the jail filed a lawsuit and requested that Gusman be stripped of his powers at the jail.
Those groups have said that Gusman hasn’t been able to comply with a federal consent decree outlining improvements at the jail.
Gusman has argued that staffing shortages are due to the city paying the sheriff’s office $12 million less this year than it did last year and the city’s refusal to pay fair wages for deputies.