The Southern Poverty Law Center has found that more than one-third of Louisiana law enforcement agencies have no policy against racial profiling. S-P-L-C’s deputy legal director Lisa Graybill says law enforcement officers are missing a major tool to help them fairly and effectively protect and serve…
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But Graybill says it’s not just small towns. She says in the city of Gretna, two-thirds of the city’s arrests are black people, but only one-third of the city’s population is black. And according to the SPLC, Gretna does not have a racial profilling policy.

Attorney General Jeff Landry claims Governor Edwards appointment to the Red River Waterways Commission is illegal. A spokesperson for Edwards says the appointment of Colonel Michael Deville, who is black, provides a more balanced representation. The wife of Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator was nominated for the job by local officals. Sheriff Prator has been a vocal critic of Edwards’ criminal justice reform efforts.

The LSU AgCenter has been awarded a five million dollar grant from the CDC to combat obesity in rural areas…
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A survey from OfficeTeam finds 56-percent of US workers say their typical lunch break last 30 minutes and more than half of professionals report that aside from eating, they take time surfing the web or social medial…
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That’s workplace expert Carrie Lewis from New Orleans, who says the average lunch is four minutes shorter than it was in 2014.