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...
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
Scalawag Magazine
Hundreds of titles are being flagged by local residents and conservative groups such as Citizens for a New Louisiana for concerns that the [children's] books feature "pornography" and "pedophilia."
School Library Journal
[Citizens for a New Louisiana] is very well organized.
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.
The (UK) Independent
Mr Lunsford’s appeal prompted the parish library director to move the [erotic] book[s] from teen nonfiction sections to adult nonfiction sections
MS Magazine (Feminist)
I knew about Citizens for a New Louisiana because of what they doing in Lafayette Parish to stop Drag Story Hour.
