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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry addresses members of the House and Senate on opening day of a legislative special session focusing on crime, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in the House Chamber at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana lawmakers adjourned the 2024 Legislative Session, Monday, June 3, 2024, a three-month long gathering of the GOP-controlled Legislature that was marked by the passage of a slew of conservative policies. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP, File)

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Louisiana's GOP-dominated Legislature concludes three-month-long regular session
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Mon,06/03/24-6:25PM , 134 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers adjourned the 2024 legislative session on Monday, a three-month-long gathering of the GOP-controlled body marked by the passage of a slew of conservative policies that could reshape various aspects of the state.
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Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. A person found guilty of a sex crime against a child in Louisiana could soon be ordered to undergo surgical castration, in addition to prison time. Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval to a bill Monday, June 3, 2024 that would allow judges the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes — including rape, incest and molestation — against a child younger than 13. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File)

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Louisiana lawmakers approve surgical castration option for those guilty of sex crimes against kids
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Mon,06/03/24-2:33PM , 113 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved Monday, and if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signs it into law, the state apparently would be the first with such a punishment.
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Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom — in another expansion of religion into day to day life by a Republican-dominated legislature. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Louisiana may soon require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
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Thu,05/30/24-12:23PM , 126 Reads
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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry addresses members of the House and Senate on opening day of a legislative special session, Feb. 19, 2024, in the House Chamber at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. Landry has signed legislation that makes it a crime to knowingly approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer while they are “engaged in law enforcement duties” after the officer has ordered the person to stay back. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP, File)

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New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances
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Wed,05/29/24-3:18PM , 101 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances, fear that the measure could hinder the public’s ability to film officers — a tool that has increasingly been used to hold police accountable.
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