All I want for Christmas…
Imagine waking up on Christmas morning to find your stocking stuffed—not with candy canes or presents, but with excuses, redactions, and delays. That’s exactly how it feels when the government turns public records requests into a waiting game. This year, all we want...
Is there really a jail crisis in Lafayette Parish?
In a recent memorandum issued to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office staff, Sheriff Mark Garber indicates that the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center is “no longer capable of meeting the demands that are being placed upon it.” Is this true? And if so, what...
The Garbage Report
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...
The eternally conflicted Kenneth Boudreaux strikes again
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...
Corrections: Political Ploys Over Public Safety – The Story of the Lafayette Jail
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....
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
The Advocate
Citizens for a New Louisiana has been systematically placing conservatives on volunteer commissions such as the Lafayette Parish Library Board of Control and Bayou Vermilion District, where they now have majority control.
Times-Picayune
In Louisiana, the movement [to remove or reshelve sexually explicit books] started in Lafayette in 2021 when ... the conservative nonprofit Citizens for a New Louisiana filed an objection.
John Guilbeau
The success we're seeing in Lafayette Parish would not be possible without vital organizations like Citizens for a New Louisiana.
Acadiana Advocate
Citizens, whose executive director is ... Michael Lunsford, is a conservative "good government" operation that started in Lafayette and is expanding across the state. Its latest crusade is pushing for tighter controls on the books and other materials minors are allowed to access in public libraries.
Valarie Hodges
[Citizens for a New Louisiana] works very, very hard to let the public know what’s going on. Without them and what they do nobody knows anything except what the elite leftists media wants them to know. Thank GOD for their answering the call to be our voice to the state.
