"Judge Rules School Board Violated Louisiana Law When Teacher Was Kicked Out of Meeting and Handcuffed"

Link to editorial:

https://www.nola.com/opinions/2018/11/it-took-a-judge-to-remind-a-school-board-that-a-public-meeting-is-for-the-public.html

From the editorial:

“A Lafayette judge ruled last week the School Board violated Louisiana’s open meetings law when English teacher Deyshia Hargrave was kicked out of a meeting and then held down and handcuffed on a hallway floor. 15th Judicial District Court Judge David Smith negated the pay raise given to Superintendent Jerome Puyau and everything else the board did during the Jan. 8 special meeting.”

And

“The attorney general said Monday that it is essential for the public’s “views and thoughts” to be heard before a vote by a government board. He’s right. 

Ms. Hargrave’s question was entirely reasonable. And the School Board owed her and other Vermilion Parish residents an answer.”