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State’s three major enforcement agencies exhibiting common swaggering...
The Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control (ATC). The Louisiana Department of Public Safety (DPS). The Louisiana Fire Marshal’s Office. From liquor permit rejections, wholesale firings of...
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October fundraiser enters final week; your contribution will help us write...
Our October fund raiser enters its final five days and we still need assistance to help us offset the cost of pursuing legal action against an administration that prefers to conduct its business behind...
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Butch Browning leads charmed life as Jindal appointee despite repeated...
Given the chance, a reality TV show profiling our state elected officials and political appointees would surely eclipse Duck Dynasty in the ratings—except viewers outside Louisiana would swear the...
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Old news or not, events in Fire Marshal Office demonstrate how administration...
While some observers might correctly point out that the re-hashing of stories about State Fire Marshal Butch Browning is old news, we feel there is relevance in demonstrating the Jindal...
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When a legislator (or a governor) doesn’t like the message, the obvious...
What kind of person, serving as a municipal fire chief, would purchase ribbons and decorations of previous conflicts from a military surplus store and pen them on his own uniform? Apparently the kind...
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With vouchers at stake, Fire Marshal ignores building’s deficiencies, zoning...
When State Fire Marshal Butch Browning isn’t busy defending his wearing of unauthorized military decorations and ribbons or trying to shift blame for a carnival ride that malfunctioned only seven hours...
View ArticleFire Marshal’s Office fortunate in having ‘Kojak Columbo’ Thompson as...
How well did the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement vet the application of Louisiana Fire Marshal Fire Chief Brant Lamar Thompson’s application for a training waiver that qualifies him as a...
View ArticleBrant Thompson’s homicide waiver application contained no supporting...
More information on Brant Thompson’s back-door waiver application for homicide investigator reveals that because he had no homicide investigator training, he was up against a deadline for the granting...
View ArticleTwo Fire Marshal deputies conducted Crowley homicide investigation in 2012...
With the revelation by LouisianaVoice that 10 employees of the State Fire Marshal’s (SFM) office applied for waivers from Police Officers Standards and Training (POST) investigator training, backed up...
View ArticlePOST certification of deputy fire marshals: for the protection of the public...
Are State Fire Marshal deputies in violation of the law by wearing firearms while on duty? That’s a fair question. Many, if not most deputy fire marshals would prefer not to wear a weapon. Some whom we...
View ArticleA witch hunt and a psychic arson investigator at the Fire Marshal’s Office;...
The top brass at the Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM) are doing what bureaucrats always do when they come under criticism from the media—especially when they think subordinates might be feeding...
View ArticleState Fire Marshal supervisors, Edmonson may have violated state ethics by...
Do State Fire Marshal Butch Browning and his top deputies, including Chief Deputy Brant Thompson and others, prevail upon French Quarter hotel management to comp them and their entourage rooms when...
View ArticleFree rooms? Unauthorized guests? Both? Legislative Auditor wants to know;...
LouisianaVoice has received confirmation that the Legislative Auditor’s office has served subpoenas on the New Orleans Roosevelt Hotel in connection with its ongoing investigation of Louisiana State...
View ArticleFemale employee writes explosive first-person account of sexual harassment by...
Editor’s note: The following first-person account was submitted to LouisianaVoice for publication. The writer’s name is being withheld because she is still employed at the Louisiana Office of State...
View ArticleBogus search warrants, security issues, transportation costs: ingredients of...
If Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter feels as if he is being squeezed these days, it is for good reason. He is. On the one hand, state district judges of the 32nd Judicial District are...
View ArticleFire Marshal Browning’s claim ‘we never had a ride fail’ is ‘Convenient...
The film An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary about former Vice President Al Gore’s lectures on the perils of global warming, won an Academy Award. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning’s “convenient...
View ArticleRumor Mill: two unclassified employees of LSFM’s office have their careers...
It looks as though the John Hays Memorial Rumor Mill might become a regular feature of LouisianaVoice. For the unindoctrinated, Hays, who died five years ago following a protracted battle with cancer,...
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