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Council demands condemnation after mass text lists members' personal numbers; GNOHA president denies sending it

New Orleans City Council · November 5, 2025
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Council members confronted the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance after a mass text circulated with councilors27 personal cellphone numbers; GNOHA27s president, Andronika Mars, said the organization did not send the message and "condemn[s] it." Councilors called the act "doxing" and urged unequivocal disavowal.

Council members began Tuesday27s Housing Day by pressing a housing advocate to explain how a mass text message that listed each council member27s personal cellphone number was circulated and who authorized it.

"This is doxing," a council member said during an extended pre-meeting exchange, describing the text as a campaign of harassment that risked exposing officials and their families. Several councilors said the distribution had united them in opposition and demanded an explicit condemnation…

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