Governor John Bel Edwards says Louisiana should consider police reforms in next year’s legislative session. Cities and states across the country are taking up changes to policing policy in the wake of George Floyd protests. Edwards says he spoke with Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields about what could be done in Louisiana…
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But Edwards says he does not support defunding police departments.

This week in the special session, lawmakers will dig into the nuts and bolts of the budget and start the debate on economic relief bills for businesses. The special session started last Monday and LaPolitics.com publisher Jeremy Alford is surprised by the slow start despite a mountain of work.
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The House Civil Law committee will discuss tort reform this morning.

A survey of 757 Louisiana residents during the final days of May finds that 42-percent of the respondents know someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 and 23-percent know someone who has died from complications. LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab director Michael Henderson says the data shows the disparities between Black and White Louisianans on exposure to the novel coronavirus…
cut 11 (10) “….for white residents”
Forty percent of black residents know someone who has died from complications of COVID-19, compared to 17 percent of white residents.