Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields plans to file police reform legislation in a future session and in the current special session he’s authored a resolution to create a Task Force to study police practices…
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Opelousas Police Sergeant Tyron Andrepont is facing five felony charges of malfeasance for allegedly beating up a black teenager last fall in a hospital. Andrepont, who is white, has been on paid administrative leave since November.

Governor John Bel Edwards has signed legislation that ends what is called the Patriot Penalty. Service members pay higher auto insurance costs when renewing their policies after coming back home following deployment. Alexandria Senator Jay Luneau authored this legislation to end this practice but wishes his other rate reduction bills passed as well…
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LSU researchers are using what is known as sewer epidemiology as a way to track community spread of the coronavirus in Baton Rouge. LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor John Pardue says you can track the spread of the virus through human waste in the sewers…
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Pardue says COVID-19 patients shed the virus in fecal matter.