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Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office warns of sex offender scam

Mon, 01/10/2022 - 10:03am

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office’s Public Information Officer Eddie Langlinais, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office is receiving information about another SCAM that involves scammers posing as Vermilion Parish Sheriff Deputies.
The scammer advises the victim, who may be a sex offender, that they are an employee of the Sheriff’s Office and that the Sheriff’s Office has a warrant for their arrest for failing to update their registration. The victim is then advised that the warrant could be paid through the website site “Jpay”.

UL Lafayette announces COVID spring guidelines

Mon, 01/10/2022 - 9:58am

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette has issued its COVID-19 health and safety protocols for the Spring 2022 semester.
Classes begin Wednesday, Jan. 12.
In a message to students and faculty and staff members on Thursday, the University announced:
• Some in-person courses may be delivered remotely from Wednesday, Jan. 12, through Friday, Jan. 28. Faculty members will notify students and post information in Moodle if there is a change in course delivery method.

Omicron cases continue to dominate spread in Louisiana

Wed, 01/05/2022 - 1:21pm

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) estimates the proportion of Omicron cases in our state has increased from 88.5% to 90.2% for the week ending January 1.*
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates the proportion of Omicron in HHS Region 6 (which includes Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas) is 98.2%. Furthermore, 63 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes (98.4%) are at the 2 highest levels of community transmission; one remains unclassified due to low test volume. This is an increase from last week's 95%.

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Vermilion Parish School System keeping eye on COVID

Wed, 01/05/2022 - 9:49am

With the increase of COVID over the last two weeks, Vermilion Parish school systems took a step back to see if they needed to make any changes to their COVID policies.
Superintendent Tommy Byler informed students and parents this past weekend that there would be no school this past Monday, but teachers and staff had to report.
Catholic schools in the parish also did not have school on Monday.
After meeting with teachers, Byler did not make any drastic changes to the COVID policies.

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