A bill to allow bulletproof backpacks on school grounds heads to the Senate. Kelley Ray has more on Senator Mike Walsworth’s bill.
A bill to raise the minimum wage will be up for a vote before the full Senate today. The legislation would boost the minimum wage to $8.50 an hour by 2020, and has the support of Governor John Bel Edwards…
A full time minimum wage worker makes 290 dollars a week before taxes.
The governor says more women than men work minimum wage jobs, often times are responsible for children at home. He says raising wages would help provide more stable homes for Louisiana’s children.
The Louisiana Attorney General’s office is expected to announce its results in the Alton Sterling investigation today. The state A-G’s office has investigated for nearly a year on whether two white Baton Rouge police officers should face charges in the 2016 shooting of Sterling, who is black.
The US Justice Department announced last May the fatal shooting outside of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge did not violate Sterling’s civil rights. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says the state’s A-G office likely used information gathered by the feds and State Police
The shooting in the summer of 2016 sparked protests in Baton Rouge. Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II approached Sterling after receiving calls about a man with a gun. An altercation ensued and video shows Salamoni shooting Sterling. Ciolino says investigators have been looking at more than just the video