YOUNGSVILLE: Celebrated Detective Who Helped Arrest Child Predators Removed
Just two days after Youngsville Chief of Police JP Broussard publicly praised his detectives for arresting alleged child predators, he reassigned the department’s only full-time criminal investigator—the same detective who had just filed a hostile work...
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Kenneth Boudreaux’s Accountability Game
Here he goes again. On May 5, 2026, Lafayette City Council Chairman Kenneth “Comedy Hour” Boudreaux issued a press release celebrating a reduction in the number of Lafayette Consolidated Government audit findings. According to Boudreaux, the improvement...
80,000 Police Cameras and Not One Security Audit
Four years ago, we asked whether the government should build a surveillance dragnet before answering basic questions about privacy, accountability, and oversight. Four years later, independent security researchers are asking a simpler question: Did anyone ever inspect...
Are Louisiana Cities Paying Officials Illegally?
Public records requests submitted to four Lafayette Parish municipalities uncovered an unexpected problem. Two cities could not produce the ordinances that Louisiana law appears to require before municipal officers may legally be paid. Two others handled the issue...
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