Andrew Capps

Jul 3, 2024 | thecurrentla.com | Andrew Capps

At any given time, hundreds of Lafayette area families are waiting for help finding or paying for a place to stay. The demand for affordable housing in Lafayette has overwhelmed the local housing authority, the agency charged with administering federal housing funds. Now, local leaders and housing advocates are pushing to revitalize the agency with a change of leadership.

Jun 17, 2024 | thecurrentla.com | Andrew Capps

Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below:Parish AgendaCity Agenda (Public Comment Time!)State law requires every parish to have an office of homeland security and emergency preparedness to coordinate local responses to major and minor disasters, like extreme weather or even terrorist attacks.

Jun 11, 2024 | thecurrentla.com | Andrew Capps

Changes to Louisiana’s public notice laws pushed by Lafayette Parish state Rep. Josh Carlson could redefine local news in parishes around the state and particularly in Lafayette. State law requires local governments to publish notices of their meetings, public bids and other activities in their parish’s “official journal” at costs that can exceed hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

Jun 5, 2024 | thecurrentla.com | Andrew Capps

Two years after Lafayette’s City Council repealed local rules against panhandling on public roads, a pending change to state law would reimpose those potentially unconstitutional restrictions — which the city’s new interim police chief says “will solve a lot of these problems here altogether.” Lafayette’s City Council repealed two local rules against panhandling in 2022 in response to a federal lawsuit filed by a homeless man who argued the prohibitions violated his First Amendment right to...

Jun 3, 2024 | thecurrentla.com | Andrew Capps

Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below:Parish Agenda (Public Comment Time!)Special Joint MeetingCity AgendaAnnual Audit. Auditors from Kolder, Slaven and Co. will present their findings from Lafayette Consolidated Government’s annual financial report to the City and Parish councils in a special joint meeting Tuesday.