by Editorial Staff | Feb 9, 2024 | Lafayette Sheriff, Youngsville
On January 22, 2024, Lafayette Parish Sheriff Mark Garber released an investigative report to Wade Trahan, Attorney for the City of Youngsville. In that report, the Sheriff, through Assistant Legal Counsel J.N. Prather, Jr., indicates that the investigation was...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 2, 2024 | Lafayette, Lafayette Sheriff, LCG
It certainly didn’t take long for Kenneth Boudreaux to again jump on the Citizens for a New Louisiana radar. On January 3, 2024, many onlookers were amazed as the family of Kenneth Boudreaux came to the stage during his public swearing-in. “Fam,” as...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 1, 2024 | Lafayette, Sunshine
The third leg of our criminal justice system analogy involves prosecutions. We will be exploring the prosecution of felony-grade offenses only for the work performed by our District Attorney’s Office. We should all understand that not all felony offenses are “violent”...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 30, 2024 | Sunshine, Youngsville
Back in 2011, the residents of the City of Youngsville were presented with a tax referendum to fund “a” Sports Complex. City officials and media reports advertised that the 1-cent sales tax on the ballot would “pay for a new sports complex and recreational...
by Editorial Staff | Jan 17, 2024 | Lafayette, Lafayette Sheriff
As we continue our look at local criminal justice systems, today we are covering the second leg of our four-legged stool: corrections. Prison/Jail population is often a metric that’s used to determine whether police are adequately deterring criminal behavior....
by Michael Lunsford | Jan 2, 2024 | Lafayette, LCG
While the state of Louisiana lurches right, some in Acadiana are concerned that Lafayette has moved leftward. Add to this, during these last four years, Josh Guillory was bombarded from every corner by local legacy media outlets. Will the media remain hawkish under a...