DCFS is giving parents who’ve lost their license due to not paying child support an easier option for getting back on the road. Don Molino has the story.
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A Lafayette organization plans to bring a petition Parish-City Council members, demanding they make a public statement on whether or not they support “Drag Queen Story Time”. Jeff Palermo has more.
DCFS is offering a second chance to delinquent dads and moms who’ve had their driver’s license revoked for not paying child support. The “Back on the Road” program allows you to pay a smaller portion of your back owed debts so you can get behind the wheel again. Child Support Enforcement Director Lydia Scales says if they can get parents road eligible, they’re more likely to pay their debts.
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Once parents contact a child support officer in their area and arrange the payment, they will be given a form to take to the Office of Motor Vehicles to reinstate their license. Scales says before they get that form though, they’ll need to make a solid contribution to their child’s well-being.
Scales says there’s a few ways parents can get the process of road reinstatement started.
The program ends September 28th.
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A Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office dispatcher was murdered outside her Deridder home early Monday morning as he children slept just inside. 24-year-old Marquita Wright was shot on her porch just before 5AM, after wrapping up her shift at 430AM. Deridder Police Chief John Gott says it’s been a shock to the town of 13,000.
Gott says seeing a member of the law enforcement family go down is always a difficult moment.
No arrests have been made, and no suspects have been named as of yet, but Gott is asking anyone with information about the murder to please come forward.
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Every year, 250,000 members of the military transition out of service and into civilian work. Now, Google has a new tool to help those vets on the job hunt. Google Project Leader, Joy Xi, (She) says when the term “Jobs for Veterans” is searched on Google, the search engine will then match vets with potential employers via the vet’s military occupational specialty code.
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Xi says the new search tool project is very meaningful to Google.
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Xi says the tool reinforces that vets have gained valuable skills in the military.
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(There are 284,000 veterans in Louisiana.)
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An organization is pushing the Lafayette Parish-City Council to take an official position on the upcoming Drag Queen Story time event at the city’s public library. The “Citizens for a New Louisiana” petition states “the use of taxpayer funds to promote sexual deviancy to three-year-olds is shocking.” Executive Director Michael Lunsford says there’s a lot of opposition to the reading.
The event in October will be a one hour story time where Drag Queens will read stories to kids about accepting their LGBTQ classmates. Lunsford says use of taxpayer funded space for the Drag Queen reading is inappropriate.
A UL Lafayette social fraternity will supply the books and Drag Queens for the reading.
Lunsford says because the library board that approved the event is appointed by the Parish-City Council, the Council is responsible for their decisions and should answer for it.
“Citizens for a New Louisiana” is reportedly tied to a larger umbrella group, “Lafayette Citizens against Taxes”, which according to A Daily Advertiser report from April, spent 21,500 dollars to oppose the Lafayette Parish Library tax renewal.