LPL Board of Control Special September Meeting 11 September 2023 Agenda HERE Minutes HERE MEETING AUDIO HERE Agenda Items Some of this information is the same as it was for August, with a couple of important changes: Northeast Library Robert Judge is no longer President of the library board. In the wake […]
LPL Board of Control Regular August Monthly Meeting 21 August 2023 Agenda HERE Minutes HERE Proposed Bylaws Changes HERE MEETING AUDIO HERE Agenda Items Northeast Library Even though it isn’t the first thing on the agenda, it’s arguably the most important, as a library for the Northeast part of Lafayette Parish has been NECESSARY
LPL Board of Control Regular June Monthly Meeting 19 June 2023 Agenda HERE Minutes HERE MEETING AUDIO HERE June marks the one-year anniversary of LPL’s director canceling displays “which single out a portion of the population,” a move made to satisfy board members’ homophobic complaints about Pride displays that were put up at a few branch
Parish Council Retaliation As predicted, Parish Councilman Josh Carlson did not drop his bid to rid the library board of Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s appointee. Now, instead of replacing Guillory’s pick with his own, Carlson has simply filed an introductory ordinance to remove that pick altogether. If we needed proof that dissent from the far-right Christian Nationalist
Parish Council Retaliation 01 April 2023 In February, Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s newest library board appointee, Marquise Watson, attended her first meeting. That month was particularly contentious, with, you may remember, Robert Judge projecting images from books he finds offensive onto the large screen at the front of the room, causing an uproar. Judge pulled this
Citizens File Suit Against Robert Judge and Lafayette Consolidated Government On Tuesday, March 7, LCAC co-founders Lynette Mejía and Melanie Brevis filed suit against Robert Judge and Lafayette Consolidated Government for infringing on their right to Free Speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The suit is based on two things. First
LPL Board of Control Monthly Meeting 15 February 2023 MEETING AGENDA MEETING AUDIO HERE PROPOSED LIBRARY CARD CHANGES MEETING MINUTES On the one hand, I’m incredibly proud of the community members who show up month after month to protest the destruction of our library at the hands of Robert Judge and his cronies on the LPL
LPL Board of Control Monthly Meeting 09 January 2023 MEETING AGENDA MEETING AUDIO HERE ACCESS OUR VIDEO COVERAGE OF MELANIE’S COMMENTS Shock and Outrage It was supposed to be a quiet meeting. The agenda had only the usual items for a library board meeting; the stuff which should be the only things the board talks about every month- the
January 2023: The Removal of Melanie Brevis Read More »
The “Un”Retirement of Danny Gillane 12 December 2022 After Lafayette library Director Danny Gillane’s announcement in November that he would be retiring, speculation ran high regarding how the board would go about replacing him. At the November Board of Control meeting, Robert Judge announced an ad hoc search committee that now it appears we don’t
Director Announces Retirement 09 November 2022 November’s first story came on November 9th, when news broke that our Director, Danny Gillane, had suddenly announced his retirement after only a year and a half in the position. The announcement came just a couple of weeks after Robert Judge was re-elected President of the LPL Board of Control. This