A legal challenge is likely coming now that the Legislature overrode the governor’s veto of a bill that bans trans youth from undergoing medical procedures that can alter their sex. Federal judges in other states have ruled the legislation unconstitutional, but Pollock Representative Gabe Firment says appellate courts have ruled the other way…
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Louisiana’s law is set to go into effect on January 1st.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy has secured $2.4 million in funding for new equipment to outfit the New Orleans Criminal Justice Crime Lab. Cassidy says the upgrade will be a difference-maker…
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The State Police Crime Lab in Baton Rouge handles much of the DNA testing and Cassidy says upgrading the lab in New Orleans can result in faster arrests when DNA is a major part of the investigation.

With writers and actors on strike, Hollywood South is quiet on the set. Teiko Foxx has more…
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56 of Louisiana’s 57 death row inmates have filed for clemency with the state Pardon Board, but Attorney General Jeff Landry has issued a legal opinion that says the Pardon Board in most cases can not take up clemency requests that have been filed more than a year after judge has issued an appeal ruling in capital cases. An attorney representing the death row prisoners says Landry’s opinion has no binding force.