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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 58
BY SENATOR MORRELL
CRIMINAL RECORDS. Prohibits the use of public funds to disseminate the criminal
history of a murder victim in Orleans Parish. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 33:2934, relative to the expenditure of public funds; to prohibit the2
expenditure of public funds to disseminate the criminal history of a murder victim3
in the parish of Orleans; to provide exceptions; to provide for civil fines; and to4
provide for related matters.5
Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 33:2934 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 8
ยง2934. Prohibition of the expenditure of public funds; Orleans Parish9
A. No public funds shall be expended to disseminate any criminal10
history of a murder victim in the parish of Orleans, except when both of the11
following conditions are met:12
(1) When such criminal history is directly related to the investigation of13
such murder.14
(2) When the person releasing such criminal history publicly states why15
such information is necessary.16
B. Any person who violates the provisions of this Section shall be subject17 SB NO. 58
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to a civil fine of not more than five hundred dollars.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Cathy R. Wells.
DIGEST
Proposed law prohibits the expenditure of public funds to disseminate any criminal history
of a murder victim in Orleans Parish. Proposed law provides an exception when both of the
following conditions are met:
(1) When such criminal history is directly related to the investigation of such murder.
(2) When the person releasing such criminal history publicly states why such information
is necessary.
Proposed law provides that any person who violates the provisions of proposed law shall be
subject to a civil fine of not more than $500.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Adds R.S. 33:2934)