The ALA is using explicit cartoons on our kids
It must have been six or seven years ago when we discovered (quite by accident) that the library had morphed into something entirely different than what anyone understood. Back then, if anyone even breathed a question about the library, they were quickly denounced as...
Accomplishments: 2024 2nd Extraordinary Session
We have been talking about this for quite some time here at Citizens for a New Louisiana. Increasing crime rates and a lack of transparency in our criminal justice system. In a recent four-part series following the issuance of the Violent Crime Task Force report back...
VICTORY: Age Appropriate Library Bill is now Law
Heather Cloud’s (R 8/10) fantastic SB7 (now Act 436) echoes policy language previously adopted by the Lafayette Library Board of Control on February 15th of this year. That language resolves some ambiguity surrounding age appropriate materials in the public...
This could never happen – but it happened
Newspaper headlines and articles across the state are criticizing the Republican controlled legislature as it went on the biggest spending spree in Louisiana history. Our legislature was not legally entitled to spend every dollar of the enormous surplus. In Louisiana,...
Citizens for a New Louisiana is making government more transparent, one parish at a time. Will you become a part of the solution?
Critical Acclaim
National Public Radio
Lunsford spent years raising the heat leading a stealthy but steady campaign that replaced members of the library board who, from his perspective, were not quite on board.
Louisiana Illuminator
Michael Lunsford, executive director of the conservative watchdog group Citizens for a New Louisiana, raised concerns about the bill’s overly broad language
The Black Chronicle
Citizens for a New Louisiana agreed with Homza that the state’s election laws were among the best in the country.
Alabama Reflector
Citizens for a New Louisiana seeks to restrict access to library materials deemed inappropriate for children.
Insider (Great Britain)
Lunsford and CNL have had an outsize influence on Louisiana libraries.
