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Concerned about repeated interference with the public's right to photograph police conduct, the ACLU of Louisiana has send a request to Superintendent Ronal Serpas seeking documents pertaining to First Amendment training provided to NOPD officers.
Roger Mason is a 52-year-old man with Schizophrenia. On August 18, 2009, Mr. Mason was arrested and placed in Tangipahoa Parish Prison. Despite clear evidence of Mr. Mason's mental illness, the prison staff provided grossly inadequate care to him for 5 months. Without treatment, Mr.
Today the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board agreed that a Facebook site posted by a middle schooler is protected speech, and cleared the record of the student who was suspended for two days from Glasgow Middle School.
The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a public records request with Rapides Parish Sheriff Charles F. Wagner, Jr., seeking disclosure of the study and supporting data that some Rapides Parish officials tout as supporting expansion of the Rapides Parish Jail.
Seeking immediate help for a disabled man held since April in inhumane conditions at the Iberia Parish Correctional Center ("ICC"), the ACLU of Louisiana today submitted an emergency second request for relief on his behalf.
The American Civil Liberties Union today submitted a request to Sheriff Marlin Gusman seeking public records documenting the studies he has generated or commissioned that justify his request for more than twice the number of jail beds than was recommended by a national expert using the Sheriff's