7:30 LRN Newscast

K-through-12 schools will not require students to show proof of a COVID vaccine next fall. David Grubb has more…
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Louisiana is experiencing another surge in COVID. LDH reported 12-hundred new cases yesterday and hospitalizations are over 100 for the first time since March 24th.

House-approved legislation to limit the release of mugshots to the press continues to advance in the Louisiana Legislature. New Orleans Representative Royce Duplessis
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The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee added several amendments that would allow the release of a mugshot if the person is charged with a violent crime and once a person is convicted of a crime.

Legislation is moving through the capitol to address the violence in juvenile detention centers. The House Criminal Justice Committee heard from Michelle Piazza, a corrections officer at a youth detention center in Bunkie. A teenage offender attacked her at that facility…
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The Senate and the House Criminal Justice Committee have approved a bill that would require an assessment of all juvenile offenders, assessing them from least to most dangerous.