3:30 LRN Newscast August 28

DCFS is giving parents who’ve lost their license due to not paying child support an easier option for getting back on the road….
Cut 1 (30) “I’m Don Molino”

The director of the Office of State Procurement has put a halt on contract negotiations regarding new voting machines between the Secretary of State’s office and Dominion Voting Systems. The reason for the delay is that one of the losing bidders for the contract claim the bid process was mishandled by interim Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin.

A group called the “Citizens for a New Louisiana” is collecting signatures for peitition that attempts to get the Lafayette Parish-City Council to state their position on a scheduled Drag Queen story time event at the public library in October. Executive director Michael Lunsford says the public should know how the council feels about men dressed in drag reading to children…
cut 13 (08) “…on it”
The council heard public testimony from two dozen speakers on the Drag Queen Story time event last week and all but one opposed it.

Authorities in southwest Louisiana are trying to determine who fatally shot a Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s office dispatcher on Monday morning in front of her home. DeRidder Police John Gott is seeking the public’s help….
cut 8 (10) “…a call”
Gott says they have no suspects in the shooting death of 24-year-old Marquita Wright.