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House Bill 76, authored by state Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans), would direct leadership at a sheriff’s office to immediately notify victims of the crime tied to the inmate’s imprisonment, any known witnesses and any person specified in writing by the prosecuting district attorney.
State Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, has been a member of the House Judiciary Committee, which has oversight of the Louisiana National Guard, for six years. She described the incident as a “clear overreaction” after reviewing the video of it.
"He really understands what's going on down here," said state Rep. Mandie Landry, an Uptown Democrat who is not related to the governor.
"Basically, unless your car is completely stopped, you cannot have your phone in your hands. There are some exceptions, if you need to call 911, if there's some sort of emergency," Landry said.
A coalition of state political officials, faith leaders and community organizers Dec. 10 called on the Trump administration to end its anti-immigrant campaign in South Louisiana, warning the operation is significantly harming large parts of the region while also calling on New Orleanians to stand in solidarity with those impacted.
“We do think here — and this is sort of legal chatter — that one would be left. If we have six majority Republican districts here, at least two of them would be a little purple, and that could open the door for some conservative Democrats to be elected. So we think there will be one majority-Black, majority-Democratic district and probably somewhere from New Orleans to Baton Rouge in that area.”
The first thing the new mayor will do is hire good people. People ready to work around the clock, who want to do their job and know what it requires. I'd hire an outside consultant to sift through resumes/applications to determine basic competence for the position (no political favors). Interviews probably by panel. Nothing will be accomplished if we don't have solid people in place.
“There are definitely states that are far advanced beyond us that we can figure out and not have to reinvent the wheel,” Landry said. “If someone else has already done it, we just need to see what they did and implement it here, start with the bigger parishes and then move it everywhere.”
“There haven’t always been adequate legal tools to hold bad actors accountable,” DA Williams continued. “But that changed when Representative Mandie Landry and Chief of Screening Andre Gaudin, from my office, partnered to pass updates to the state’s criminal blight law. This indictment represents the first time those new tools are being used in a courtroom to protect our communities from people who profit by ignoring them.”
"It's terrible," Landry said in an interview with USA Today Network. "They're just hurting poor women who don't have the option to go elsewhere for healthcare.
July brought a new crisis. Deputies wrongfully released 30-year-old Khalil Bryan, who faced violent charges, after confusing him with another man who shared a surname. The public wasn’t alerted for roughly 14 hours, according to a documented timeline by FOX 8. Within days, Democrat state legislator, Mandie Landry, said Hutson’s office may have violated a new law requiring immediate notification when someone leaves custody without authorization. Hutson fired two deputies and suspended five, promising tighter verification.
"You have to have [your phone] essentially stuck to your dashboard, or I use Apple CarPlay,” Rep. Mandie Landry (D), New Orleans, said. “Whatever you use your phone for, you can’t touch it with your hands.”
At Monday's press conference, Williams lauded New Orleans Democratic State Rep. Mandie Landry for championing legislation in 2023 that gave prosecutors the tools to file the charges.
“It appears that she broke that law, and what that would amount to is, it could be malfeasance,” Landry said.
“I think it’s a perfect example of our upside-down tax policy,” said Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, a legislator who voted against the bill and is a member of the House committee that oversees tax policy.
“We are giving tax breaks to people who own very expensive boats but we can’t give tax breaks to people who own cheap cars or who have expensive insurance policy premiums,” she said.
STATE REP. MANDIE LANDRY (D), LOUISIANA: Religion in the classrooms that seemed like that was decided a long time ago. It's definitely promoting religion, period, and promoting Christianity, and not everyone, not every kid, you know, subscribes to those religions.
“We always know, those of us in office, that something like that is possible, but to actually see that happen. And for me to see it happen to a very liberal female Democratic pro-choice legislator, really kind of hit home,” Landry said.
Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, one of the few votes against HB358, said she wanted to vote for the bill but could not due to desperate texts from her constituents.
"We did all this stuff about auto insurance, but we have done almost nothing about homeowners insurance this year, and we might have done stuff in the past, but it keeps getting worse and worse. I have that experience myself," Rep. Mandie Landry (D - New Orleans) said.
"They sent me some of the emails, 'This will eliminate more than 100 pharmacies, this will harm people's ability to manage life-threatening conditions like organ transplants or cancer. This puts the lives of Louisiana patients at risk.'," Representative Mandie Landry said. "CVS, you should be so ashamed, because you are scaring people."
"We have about $8 billion in tax incentives and tax breaks that we give away every year, and we don't really know if we're getting the return on investment for that money," Landry said, touting the bill's bipartisan support.
“We are supposed to protect the elderly – not somebody who is trying to make more money off the elderly,” said Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, who opposed the bill.
Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans) teamed up with Rep. Debbie Villio (R-Kenner) and Governor Jeff Landry’s Office to push the bill.
It requires the sheriff or their team to “immediately notify”:
Department of Public Safety and Corrections
State police
All police departments in the parish
Any known witnesses
Any known victims
Local media outlets
“Unnecessary, grossly incompetent escape of inmates in New Orleans on Friday, really unacceptable,” said New Orleans democratic representative Mandie Landry in a social media video.
State Representative Mandie Landry comments on various local bills including insurance and abortion.
Asked by committee member Rep. Mandie Landry (D) about evidence showing that people sometimes substitute marijuana for alcohol, Hall said “the only study I really have on that” was a Yale study of veterans that found marijuana “caused exaggeration of the PTSD.”
“So this isn’t necessarily about benefits, it’s about informing people to the government so that they can be deported?” asked Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans).
“What we’re seeing is real simple,” she said. “The tax goes up, smoking use goes down, health outcomes go up.”
"What we're seeing is simple, tax goes up, smoking use goes down, health outcomes go up," Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans said.