Published: May 17, 2023
By: Piper Naudin, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE–The House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice moved a bill
forward that would create a registry of people who commit battery against minors.
Rep. Troy D. Romero, R-Jennings, proposed House Bill 31 to protect children. Terry Mann
tearfully testified how he had discovered after two weeks of intensive medical care that his 7-year-old grandson had suffered from two skull fractures.
He said the bill was necessary to protect children from people who might harm them.
Sarah Whittington, an attorney for the Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana, testified in opposition. She said the bill would be ineffective in protecting children because all the information that it attempts to publicize is already available to law enforcement officers.
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