Crime Fighters

January 4, 2021

Council Preview 1/5 — Lafayette surveillance cameras, more CARES Act funding, conditional pay raises for city marshal’s office, board and commission seats

Private contractor tapped by Guillory lacks license to install security cameras in Lafayette

The company, owned by Lafayette businessman and law enforcement booster Brooks Bernard, can’t immediately execute on a cooperative endeavor agreement it quietly signed with Mayor-President Josh Guillory last month.

Lafayette City Council members still in the dark over security camera contract with local businessman

City Council members are questioning the mayor-president’s justification for signing a controversial security camera contract with a private company without their knowledge or approval but remain unsure how they might use the various remedies at their disposal.