Nola.com: Here's how federal court in New Orleans aims to address shortage of Black jurors. Is it enough?

Faced with data showing that federal jury pools in the New Orleans area steeply underrepresent its Black population, the judges of the Eastern District of Louisiana last month changed their rules for gathering those names for the first time in seven years.

The court dispensed with its reliance on voter registration data as the only source for its juror lists. The new rules allow the clerk to pull names from driver’s license records as well. Another change calls for swapping out the court's master jury wheel every two years, rather than four. The wheel is a grouping of 60,000 people from the district that the clerk has deemed qualified to serve on a jury.