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Juror information will now be barred from public access under new legislative bill (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE—Under a bill that advanced through the Senate Judiciary C Committee Tuesday, the public would be barred from accessing juror information. The Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure states that juror names are to be published in each parish’s official journal, local newspaper or on the door of the courthouse. Rep. Debbie Villio, R-Kenner, sought to change the current process and protect juror information, including jurors’ identities, their telephone numbers, emails, home addresses, and
House panel battles over auditing university spending on minority enrollment (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE – A House resolution directing auditors to determine how much state and federal money has been spent on programs requiring Louisiana universities to increase the number of minority students survived after a tense debate in the House Appropriations Committee on Monday. Rep. Aimee Adatto Freeman and Rep. Alonzo Knox, two New Orleans Democrats, moved to involuntarily defer, or effectively kill, the resolution. But the committee voted 11-7 on Monday to send the measure to the House Commi
10 years after facing a similar issue, the state government looks to combat rising prison costs (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE (LSU Manship News Service) – In 2016, Louisiana faced a $2 billion budget gap, and lawmakers decided they could no longer afford to lock so many people up. But in 2024, after a nationwide crime spike during the COVID pandemic, Gov. Jeff Landry reversed many of the changes, pushing through laws to keep offenders in jail longer, sending more juveniles to adult prisons and limiting the possibility of parole. Now costs are rising again, fueled by an increase in the state’s prison populat
House panel advances bill to criminalize deepfake images of minors (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE – Rep. Bryan Fontenot, R-Thibodaux, proposed a bill on Wednesday making it a felony to possess, sell and distribute artificial intelligence-produced nudity of a minor. The bill received unanimous support from the House Criminal Justice Committee, and it nowadvances to the House floor. House Bill 119 introduces a new statute for the possession of artificial intelligence nudity and increases the penalty of distribution from a misdemeanor to a felony charge. The penalty would amount to
Louisiana voter rolls cleaned as verification debate heats up in D.C. (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry said a federal data program that verifies citizenship status uncovered that 403 noncitizens registered to vote in Louisiana out of a total voting pool of 2.96 million, with 83 having voted in at least one election since the 1980s. The state used the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program for the first time this year after President Donald Trump’s administration removed system fees. “If you keep your voter rolls clean
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