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Senate committee advances bill restricting law enforcement from using no-knock warrants KATC Posted at 8:30 PM, Apr 27, 2021 and last updated 2021-04-27 21:30:25-04 BATON ROUGE – A bill that would restrict law enforcement officials from using no-knock warrants and chokeholds advanced Tuesday. Sen. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, moved his bill, SB34, through the Senate Judiciary B Committee, and it will next go to the Senate floor. The bill restricts law enforcement officers from conducting n...

Sen. Cleo Fields wants law enforcement officers to change how they do things State Sen. Cleo Fields wants Louisiana police officers to change how they do things By Chris Rosato | April 27, 2021 at 7:04 PM CDT - Updated April 27 at 7:22 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Some Louisiana lawmakers want to see changes to policing in the state. A bill by Sen. Cleo Fields (D-Baton Rouge) would do five things. It requires agencies to revise their intervention training, turn their body cameras on whenev...

Legislation instituting a series of policing policy reforms clears a Senate committee and is headed to the Senate floor. One of the reforms would largely prohibit the execution of no-knock warrants at nighttime. State Police Lt. Robert Burns said LSP backs the change and noted it’s already being phased out of use. “We do a lot more of what is called a surround and call out where we protect all entrances and exits of a property and we use as many tactics as we can to try and gain communicati...

Capitol Briefing: Houma lawmaker wants New Orleans area -- not Louisiana taxpayers -- to pay for citys levees From wire reports Houma lawmaker wants N.O. to pay levee bill A measure headed to the House directs the governing authorities in New Orleans and four suburban parishes to devise a plan to pay off the states share of the $14.5 billion post-Katrina hurricane levee system. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Jerome "Zee" Zeringue, R- Houma, asks officials in Jefferson, Orleans, Plaqu...

A bill that would restrict law enforcement officials from using no-knock warrants at night and chokeholds advanced in the Louisiana Legislature.

BATON ROUGE — The Senate Education Committee voted 5-1 Wednesday to advance a bill that requires mandatory kindergarten and school attendance for Louisiana children beginning at age 5. “We have about 2,800 kids who do not attend kindergarten in the state of Louisiana,” Sen. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, the author of the bill author and the committee’s chairman. “Early childhood education is a necessity. A brain is developed most in the ages from birth to 5 years of age a...

Senate Bill 10, proposed by Senator Cleo Fields proposes making Kindergarten a mandatory school year for children who turn 5 on or before September 30 the year when classes begin.

Mandatory kindergarten might be on the way in Louisiana; heres what it means A bill that would make kindergarten mandatory in Louisiana cleared its first hurdle Wednesday when the Senate Education Committee moved it forward after at least one member said she didnt know it wasnt already required. Senate Bill 10 by Senate Education Committee Chairman Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, would require children who turn 5 before Sept. 30 of a school year to attend kindergarten or the home school equivalent...

Senators back mandatory kindergarten bill for Louisiana April 21, 2021 GMT BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana would make kindergarten mandatory if lawmakers agree to a bill that won support Wednesday from a Senate committee. The proposal from Senate Education Chairman Cleo Fields would require children who turn 5 years old by Sept. 30 of each year to attend kindergarten, starting with the 2022-23 school year. People who homeschool their children would be required to start with kindergarten. ...

Edwards outlines legislative agenda Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his agenda Thursday for the legislative session that starts Monday, including his support for making kindergarten mandatory for every Louisiana student. The estimated cost of the change to the state’s multibillion education budget is $12 million or less. The proposal is in line with lawmakers’ recent emphasis on early childhood education, though critics believe the mandate infringes on families’ right to make that decisio...