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Judge Ramon Lafitte has issued a preliminary injunction against the Shreveport Airport Authority and the city in a ruling which prohibits the city from confiscating hangars (or other privately owned property) at the Shreveport Airports. According to the record in that case, the city has been attempting since 2017 to take over privately owned hangars and to claim ownership of them, without paying the owners of the hangars for the expropriation of their property. Some hangars have been taken in this fashion and at least one hangar owner has been locked out of his place of business after the city takeover. Judge Lafitte’s ruling prohibits and enjoins the city from such takings which Judge Lafitte has found likely violates the Constitution and the City Charter. This is the second time the courts have had to issue injunctions against the city and the Shreveport Airport Authority for unlawful action, having already enjoined the city from attempting to prematurely evict its tenants from their hangars.

Like the city of Shreveport, the Caddo Commission does not have the resources to remove all the debris from the recent two storms.

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Louisianans whose personal information was exposed in a massive data breach that affected the state’s Office of Motor Vehicles last month, will receive one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced last Friday. The resources are being offered in response to a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a filetransfer program popular with corporations and governments. Among agencies that had their data breached were Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles, Oregon’s Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nova Scotia provincial government, British Airways, the British Broadcasting Company and the U.K. drugstore chain Boots.

How does one rebuild a life? A man who decided to rob a bank and ended up in Angola managed to find the path to a new life by walking with God.

The Shreveport City Council Public Safety Committee meeting on Tuesday, July 25, was productive.

The city of Shreveport entered into a debris management services contract with Ceres Environmental Services Inc. on July 11. Here is a summary of the agreement: 1. Ceres was selected from those companies that responded to an Invitation to Bid -- Disaster Debris Removal. 2. The contract allows 42 days to complete the debris collection. 3. Ceres will work with the city to identify alternative uses for the reduced waste that do not require disposal in the landfill. 4. Ceres is required to maintain specified insurance coverage to protect the city that includes any Ceres subcontractors.