BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Louisiana bill proposes new requirements for evaluating the performance of the Baton Rouge police chief.
House Bill 832, authored by State Rep. Barbara Freiberg (R-Baton Rouge), would require that the police chief of Baton Rouge be evaluated three years from their initial appointment date. The proposed legislation would also require evaluations every year.
The bill would authorize the mayor-president to reconfirm the police chief for another year or demote the police chief. A demotion would not be considered corrective or disciplinary action, and an appeal wouldn’t be possible…