Potential federal cuts in Medicaid could have devastating effects here in Louisiana. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Law enforcement has announced the arrest of 15 people in Lincoln and Union Parishes as part of Operation Safe Streets. Authorities say the initiative was designed to enhance community safety through proactive policing strategies targeting violent crime, drug trafficking and illegal possession of firearms.
Governor Jeff Landry has signed a law that allows law enforcement to intercept and disable threatening drones. The legislation comes amid rising national concern over unauthorized drone activity near sensitive locations. Thomas Mule with the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness says there are more than two-thousand critical infrastructure facilities in the state, including two nuclear power plants.
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Landry says recently law enforcement arrested several people for using drones to drop drugs and cell phones into a federal prison in Grant Parish.
Earlier this month, SeaD consulting went around to two dozen restaurants in Alexandria and found that about 50-percent of the restaurants advertising Gulf shrimp, were serving foreign shrimp. It’s illegal in Louisiana to mislabel the origin of seafood. Violators could be forced to pay significant penalties. Sea-D Founder Dave Williams says even with Louisiana’s strict mislabeling laws there still needs to be more enforcement.