SLS 24RS-879 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 32
BY SENATOR FOIL
PUBLIC SFTY/CORRECT DEPT. Requests the Department of Public Safety and
Corrections to publish certain prison population data on its website.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To urge and request the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to allow public
3 download of the monthly Report of the Offender Census at Local Correctional
4 Facilities and the underlying census data used to populate the informational
5 dashboards presented on the department's website in a downloadable Microsoft Excel
6 format.
7 WHEREAS, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections actively gathers census
8 data relating to Louisiana's prison population; and
9 WHEREAS, the department uses the gathered census data to compile the Report of
10 the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities monthly; and
11 WHEREAS, the Report of the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities
12 contains data relating to the number of persons housed in local facilities managed by parish
13 and municipal governments; and
14 WHEREAS, the Report of the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities
15 contains data relating to the number of persons being housed by the Department of Public
16 Safety and Corrections on behalf of other agencies including U.S. Immigration and Customs
17 Enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Service, persons sentenced to parish prisons, and pre-trial
18 detainees in facilities operated by the department and in local facilities managed by parish
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1 and municipal governments; and
2 WHEREAS, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections maintains a publicly
3 available website; and
4 WHEREAS, the department uses the gathered census data to populate multiple
5 informational dashboards on its website; and
6 WHEREAS, the department has the ability to allow visitors to its website to
7 download the data used to generate both the Report of the Offender Census at Local
8 Correctional Facilities and the informational dashboards from the website in Microsoft
9 Excel format; and
10 WHEREAS, the information contained in both the monthly Report of the Offender
11 Census at Local Correctional Facilities and the data presented on the department's website
12 is public record; and
13 WHEREAS the department will already provide the data used to generate both the
14 Report of the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities and the informational
15 dashboards in response to public records requests.
16 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
17 urge and request the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to publish the census data
18 used to generate both the Report of the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities and
19 the informational dashboards on the department's website as downloadable files in Microsoft
20 Excel format.
21 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, if available, the data used to generate the Report
22 of the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities include a breakdown of the number
23 of persons housed on behalf of other agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs
24 Enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Service, persons sentenced to parish prisons, and pre-trial
25 detainees.
26 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
27 James M. LeBlanc, secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jonathon Wagner.
DIGEST
SCR 32 Original 2024 Regular Session Foil
Requests the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections to publish the census data used to
generate both the Report of the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities and the
informational dashboards on the department's website as downloadable files in Microsoft
Excel format.
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