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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 on behalf
16 of other agencies including United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the United
17 States Marshals Service, persons sentenced to parish prisons, and pre-trial detainees in
18 facilities operated by the department and in local facilities managed by parish and municipal
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1 governments; and
2 WHEREAS, the department maintains a publicly available website; and
3 WHEREAS, the department uses the gathered census data to populate multiple
4 informational dashboards on its website; and
5 WHEREAS, the department has the ability to allow visitors to its website to
6 download the data used to generate both the Report of the Offender Census at Local
7 Correctional Facilities and the informational dashboards from the website in Microsoft
8 Excel format; and
9 WHEREAS, the information contained in both the monthly Report of the Offender
10 Census at Local Correctional Facilities and the data presented on the department's website
11 is public record; and
12 WHEREAS, the department already provides the data used to generate both the
13 Report of the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities and the informational
14 dashboards in response to public records requests.
15 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
16 urge and request the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to publish the census data
17 used to generate both the Report of the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities and
18 the informational dashboards on the department's website as downloadable files in Microsoft
19 Excel format.
20 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, if available, the data used to generate the Report
21 of the Offender Census at Local Correctional Facilities include a breakdown of the number
22 of persons housed on behalf of other agencies, including United States Immigration and
23 Customs Enforcement, the United States Marshals Service, persons sentenced to parish
24 prisons, and pre-trial detainees.
25 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
26 James M. LeBlanc, secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.
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The original instrument was prepared by Jonathon Wagner. The following
digest, which does not constitute a part of the legislative instrument, was
prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
SCR 32 Engrossed 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.
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary B to the
original bill
1. Makes technical changes.
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