Encouraging news as COVID cases in the state are at an all-time low…David Grubb has the latest numbers…:

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Bossier City announces a new police chief. Sgt. Christopher Estess beat out four other candidates to be the successor of Bossier Chief Shane McWilliams, who announced his retirement back in January. Mayor Tommy Chandler made the official announcement this morning.

A bill that would let judges sentenced convicted juvenile sex offenders to castration is halted from progress by its own author. In a Senate committee on Judiciary matters, bill sponsor Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow says she’s heard many objection to her bill –especially if that is done to a person and it’s later discovered they were innocent…:

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She agreed to defer the bill.

After over 800 nursing home patients were evacuated to a nasty warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish during Hurricane Ida, resulting in more than a dozen deaths, legislation to give the state more oversite powers have been proposed in this session. Baton Rouge Representative Rick Edmonds’ bill gives the Department of Health more enforcement…:

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With only one “no” vote the bill now moves to the House floor.