A wing that’s been closed since 2018 at Angola, may soon be used to house ICE detainees. State leaders are reportedly in talks with the Trump Administration and renovations are already in the works. There are concerns over housing detainees at a facility with violent criminals But West Feliciana Parish president Kenny Havard is confident in the staff at Angola.
Cut 9 (07) “…willing to work.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson is on the cover of “Time” Magazine this month, describing his relationship with President Trump as a good cop-bad cop scenario. Johnson was elected Speaker of the House in the middle of just his fourth term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives – this after serving just one term in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
With this being Child Support Awareness Month, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services is bringing back its “On the Road Again” program. Assistant Secretary of Family Support, Sammy Guillory, says it’s an opportunity for noncustodial parents who lost their driver’s license because they haven’t been paying their child support to regain their driver’s license…
Cut 3 (10) “…meet em”
For more information go to the Department of Children and Family Services’ website.
The former police chief of the small Lafourche Parish community of Golden Meadow is arrested for allegedly deleting a dozen years worth of files on his way out the door. Tony Dufrene is charged with injuring public records, computer tampering and malfeasance in office. Attorney General Liz Murrill says that data includes traffic citations and fuel expenditures.
Murrill says this all happened after Dufrene lost his bid for re-election.