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2009 "Kiss a Cop" Event
LPSO as well as other local agencies participated in the annual "Kiss a Cop" event hosted by Faith House. The event is held every October during Domestic Violence Awareness month.

The staff and residents of Faith House host "Kiss a Cop" and invite law enforcement to have dinner with the children currently residing at Faith House.

The purpose of the event is to show children that law enforcement are the "good guys", since the only prior experience many of them have had with law enforcement involved their response to a domestic violence incident.

Citizen Praises Sheriff's Innovative Programs

Dear Sheriff Neustrom:

Just so you know that I do write complimentary letters in addition to those that criticize, please accept my praise for some of your innovative programs that have been recently highlighted in the media. The programs I speak of are the direct supervision of prisoners approach; the off-site telecommunication visitation for families of prisoners; the call program for the elderly; and the day reporting programs for some offenders. All of these programs show your very humanistic approach to corrections and the general human condition. You are a different kind of sheriff from the standard old Louisiana model, and it has taken some adjustment by the jaded downtown crowd (myself included) to see the wisdom of your ways. Anyway, thank you for your innovative programs, and I am always available with an opinion. I don't lack opinions.

With kind regards, I remain Very truly yours, Albert M. Karre', Jr.

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Infant Abandoned

Thursday, March 21, 2002

According to Sheriff Michael W. Neustrom on Thursday March 21, 2002 at approximately 5:50a.m. Sheriff’s deputies responded to the 1200th block of Carmel Drive in reference to an abandoned child. Upon arrival the residents informed deputies that someone had left a newborn male child at their doorstep. Acadian Ambulance was at the scene and transported the child to University Medical Center where he is in stable condition. The investigation is ongoing and Detectives are asking anyone with information about this incident to call the Sheriff’s Office at 232-9211 or Lafayette Crime Stoppers at 232-Tips.

Lt. Craig Stansbury
Public Information Officer
Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office