NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 21 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana issued the following agency statement on Feb. 20, 2024: The ACLU of Louisiana has released the following statement after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court's decision to dismiss a Section 1983 action brought against DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Office deputies by Mr. Jarius Brown--a Black man who was unlawfully beaten by officers who were later criminally charged by the U.S. Department of Justi  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (TNSres) -- The American Institute of Chemical Engineers issued the following news release: Chemical engineers, process safety experts, and affiliated stakeholders across the chemical process industries (CPI) will survey the state of their profession when the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) present the 2024 AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety -- to be held March 24-28 at the Ernest N. Mor  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 23 -- Moms Demand Action, a part of Everytown for Gun Safety, issued the following news release: * * * Louisiana Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond * * * The Louisiana chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety's grassroots network, released the following statement in response to Senate Republicans passing SB 1, legislation to allow permitless carry, which would effectively roll back Louisiana'  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 22 -- The National Association for Gun Rights issued the following news release on Feb. 21, 2024: The Louisiana Senate is rushing Senate Bill 1, Constitutional Carry, through the 2024 second special legislative session, and the National Association for Gun Rights delivered 80,000 petitions on day one of the special session urging passage with no anti-gun amendments to weaken the bill. SB 1, sponsored by Sen. Blake Miguez, passed Senate Judiciary C today on a party   more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 22 -- The National Urban League issued the following statement on Feb. 21, 2024: * * * National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial, and Urban League of Louisiana President and CEO Judy Reese Morse joined forces to sound the alarm on the dangerous proposals requested by Governor Jeff Landry in the recently convened Special Legislative Session on Crime taking place in Baton Rouge. Morial and Morse issued the following statement: "Contrary to Governor Lan  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 20 (TNSres) -- Right on Crime, a national campaign of the Texas Public Policy Foundation that supports conservative solutions for reducing crime, restoring victims, reforming offenders and lowering taxpayer costs, issued the following news release: Right On Crime, a national campaign focused on conservative solutions to improve our criminal justice system, examines and recommends improvements to the complex and diverse entry points for community supervision in Louis  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 20 (TNSres)-- Right on Crime, a national campaign of the Texas Public Policy Foundation that supports conservative solutions for reducing crime, restoring victims, reforming offenders and lowering taxpayer costs, issued the following news release: Right On Crime (http://www.rightoncrime.com/) is encouraged by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's (LLA) Report on the 2017 Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), a comprehensive and bi-partisan criminal justice package of  more