The Jefferson Parish Council deferred voting Wednesday on Councilman Mark Spears Jr.'s proposal to require the inspector general's office to provide written requests for records. Inspector General David McClintock has said the measure would make it impossible to operate covertly and would render his office ineffective.
Spears says he wants only to amend Jefferson's inspector general ordinance to mirror New Orleans' ordinance. The New Orleans law served as a model when Jefferson's was created four years ago.
