Legislation to help parents keep up with who their children are talking to online heads to the Governor’s desk to be signed into law. Metairie Representative Cameron Henry says his bill requires sex offenders to register any email addresses or online user names. He says kids are playing games and chatting with strangers online, and this would aid parents in making sure predators aren’t talking to their kids.
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Henry says this a whole new way for sex offenders to find victims.

A measure that would require municipalities to post a warning sign 500 feet before a red light camera has received final legislative passage. New Orleans Senator Troy Carter says these cameras should be about safety, not about collecting money. He says this also gives people who do run red lights due process.
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The website BayouOpportunity.com, has been launched to aid oil and gas industry workers find new jobs, as unemployement continutes to rise in that sector. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says the site has information about a job fair that will be held this June to help people get jobs and find training opportunties.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds the adult smoking rate in the US is falling faster than is has in the past 20 years. Renee Underwood, with the state department of health and hospitals, says they’ve partnered with organizations, like the Louisiana Public Health Institute and the American Cancer Society, to reduce the number of people who start smoking and to get smokers the resources they need to quit.
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