From the Desk of the District Attorney
July 2023. As the school year is set to begin next week, I would like to begin this month’s Desk of the DA with positive news about some of the outstanding youth of our community. On July 21, our office graduated its inaugural class of middle school students in its Summer Youth Leadership Academy. The graduation ceremony was in the basement jury room for Caddo District Judge John Mosely Jr.’s courtroom in the Caddo Parish Courthouse. The academy, a partnership with Community Renewal Friendship House, hosted the week-long event, encouraging students to dream and fulfill a productive future. Students also learned leadership skills, the inner workings of the judicial system and were enriched through art and culture. The goal of the academy is to encourage children to dream and take control of their destiny and become knowledgeable of the court system. The judicial system can be intimidating, and most people only see one side of the system, the side where someone’s having to be defended. More important, my desire is to inspire young people in our community to continue to make good decisions. “We are showing the children positive images, and letting them know they ,too, can achieve and become the doctor, the lawyer and even the judge,” says Assistant District Attorney Britney Green, the academy's headmaster. “We want our children to know they are the captains of their own destiny.'
