A bill to allow sexual assault victims to receive a copy of their forensic medical exam is expected to be heard in the Louisiana Senate today. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Senator Cleo Fields has a bill on the table that would require cable and internet service providers to provide rebates after disasters. David Grubb has more…
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An LSU student-founded outdoorsman’s company wins big in a prestigious business plan pitching competition. More from Kevin Gallagher…:
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A bill to allow a sexual assault victim, if requested, to receive a copy of their forensic medical exam is scheduled to be heard in the Louisiana Senate today. Bill Author, Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell says she was shocked to learn this was even an issue after hearing testimony from former LSU students who claimed they were sexually assaulted.
The bill was amended in committee that only a component adult victim may request a copy of the exam from the healthcare provider who performed the examination. Mizell says a copy must be provided to the patient no later than 14 days after the request is received.
STAR (Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response) Legal Director Morgan LeMandre says it’s about your medical health and victims of other crimes, for example, a gunshot wound, are able to have a copy but not victims of sexual assault.
LeMandre says she and Mizell were told at a sexual assault oversite commission meeting why victims are denied a copy of the report….
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If passed the bill is a companion piece of legislation to Shreveport Representative Thomas Pressly’s, House Bill 313, granting crime victims certain rights.
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After a disaster strikes outages are likely, and paying for your internet or cable that is not working should not be another burden for consumers, says Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields. His Senate Bill 352 would fix that.
Fields says he’s not interested in punishing companies, but in making the process of recovery easier. To emphasize that, he proposed amendments to the bill that limited the scope of when the rebates would take effect and who would be subject to them.
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Fields says currently a customer needs to contact their cable or internet provider in order to receive a refund if they experienced an outage after a hurricane or severe weather. The Baton Rouge lawmaker believes these refunds should occur automatically if the outage lasts more than 24 hours.
The proposal also puts cable and internet providers under the regulatory authority of the Public Service Commission.
Lauren Chauvin, executive director of the Louisiana Internet and Television Association, says they issued millions of dollars in refunds after Hurricane Ida and the bill calls for too many restrictions on service providers…
The amended bill passed through Senate Commerce, with Fields pledging to work on the wording of the legislation before he brings it up for a vote in the Senate.
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An LSU student-founded sportsmen’s charter business wins big in a business plan competition. Logan Meaux is the founder of Mallard Bay, which he describes as a marketplace for booking guided hunting and fishing trips with reputable charters and outfitters. He says they recently were in the Rice University Business Plan Competition, and won over $200-thousand…:
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Meaux is the son of WAITR delivery app founder Chris Meaux. He says problems with booking a hunting trip for his dad inspired him to build Mallard Bay from the ground up. In existence for less than a year, Meaux feels Mallard Bay did remarkably well in the prestigious business pitch competition…:
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Only 42 teams competed in the Rice competition, and Mallard took home the fourth largest amount of investments; totaling about $215-thousand. So what’s next for Meaux, his business partners and Mallard Bay? Perhaps an appearance on “Shark Tank?”…
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More online at “MallardBay.com”
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Trailing by two at halftime, the eighth-seeded Pelicans outscored top-seeded Phoenix 69-52 in the second half on their way to a 118-103 victory on Sunday night to even up their opening-round series at two games each. Brandon Ingram scored a game-high 30 points, becoming the first player in franchise history to reach that mark in three straight playoff games.
It was an electric weekend in New Orleans, with sold out crowds making their presence felt in both games. Pelicans coach Willie Green says it was something special.
After scoring 31 points in game three, Chris Paul was held to four by the Pelicans, on just 2-of-8 shooting. Herb Jones and Jose Alvarado also forced Paul into three turnovers, one more than he had in the entire series coming in. It got testy between the two in the second half, Alvarado says it’s just basketball.
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Game five of the series is Tuesday night with game six back in New Orleans on Thursday.
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LSU and Louisiana Tech held spring games on Saturday and both schools are undecided at starting quarterback. In Ruston, TCU transfer Matthew Downing, redshirt senior Parker McNeil and freshman Landry Lyddy are competing to be Q-B 1. Bulldogs coach Sonny Cumbie says it would be hard to name a starter right now
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Going into spring, many believed it was between Myles Brennan and Jayden Daniels to be the starting quarterback. But Garrett Nussmeier showed he should be considered as well as he threw for a game-high 136 yards and a touchdown. Following the spring game, Tigers Coach Brian Kelly admitted there’s less clarity on who will be the starter…
Jack Bech led the wide receivers with six catches for 56 yards and two touchdowns. Kelly is impressed with the soon-to-be sophomore from Lafayette and calls him deceptive…
After a slow start on Saturday, LSU got the running game going. Tre Bradford led the way with 85 yards rushing, Armoni Goodwin had 71 yards on the ground and Josh Williams scored twice and had 51 yards rushing. John Emery also got four carries for 24 yards. Kelly knows they have holes on the team but not at running back…
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After getting swept last weekend at Arkansas, LSU baseball returned home this past weekend to sweep Missouri. Tigers Coach Jay Johnson likes the look of his line-up with freshman Josh Pearson leading-off…
LSU hosts UNO on Tuesday and then Georgia this weekend.