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NEW ORLEANS, LA – With his recent win, City Coun­cil Pres­i­dent Jason Williams will become the new Dis­trict Attor­ney for Orleans Parish. Williams won 58 per­cent of the vote over for­mer judge and one-time inter­im Dis­trict Attor­ney Keva Landrum.

Williams has run on the promise of com­plete­ly reform­ing the office, from the inside out. He calls it “inject­ing human­i­ty back into the process,” and not just pros­e­cut­ing as many peo­ple as they can.

Williams ran as a pro­gres­sive, vow­ing to remake a crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem that he called both racist and sex­ist and to end the “win at all costs” cul­ture that he said has shaped the prosecutor’s office over the last sev­er­al administrations.