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...
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...
Cajun Hustle – The Gary Haynes Corruption Trial: Full Transcript
For several years, Citizens for a New Louisiana has followed the federal public corruption investigation centered on the 15th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. From identifying the first publicly known co-conspirator, to examining the expanding scope of the...
The Predictable Closing of Comeaux High School
Citizens for a New Louisiana has long argued that Lafayette Parish does not suffer from a revenue problem. It suffers from a priorities problem. The closure of Ovey Comeaux High School may be the most visible consequence of those priorities yet. At the very moment...
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