After being vetoed last year, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act by Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell will go into effect this fall. Mizell believes a trans female athlete winning a collegiate swimming competition helped garner more votes in favor of the bill.
Cut 7 (09) “…needed the bill.”
The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act bans trans female athletes from competing in women’s sports and it goes into effect August 1st.
New Orleans Representative Royce Duplessis’s bill to limit the release of mugshots of those accused, but not convicted, of certain nonviolent crimes will soon become law. Duplessis says he will be watching to see how local law enforcement and news outlets respond.
After the recent mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas… Louisiana Education Superintendent Cade Brumley says he’s been in talks with about 100 education leaders on how to keep students safe. Brumley says more focus will be made on keeping school facilities physically secure as well…:
Cut 11 (13) “…barriers in place.”
LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Dr. Amanda Staiano (Sty-ann-yo) says they studied 72 children, ages 3 to 5, over a 12-week period to see if the exercises on a smartphone app that parents used to interact with them improved their motor skills. And she says it made a difference.
The app is called Play and they are looking to find sponsors so the app can be available to the public.