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On December 7, 1810, William C. C. Claiborne, governor of the Orleans Territory, annexed the short-lived Republic of West Florida to the United States and Louisiana as Feliciana County. On December 22, 1810, the county west of the Pearl River was organized in four civil parishes: East Baton Rouge, Feliciana, St. Helena, and St. Tammany.
An annex containing two additional court rooms and additional space for the Clerk of Court and the Police Jury was added in the year 1958. Another annex for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals of the State of Louisiana was completed in 1960. In 1967, a Parish Government Building was completed to house the various offices of the Police Jury.
LaSalle Parish (French: Paroisse de La Salle) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 14,791. [ 1 ] The parish seat is Jena . [ 2 ]
Interim, county-wide police jury, judge and justice were appointed. However, on December 3, 1912, an election was held for the offices of sheriff, clerk of court, assessor, coroner, superintendent of public education, police juror, justice of the peace, constable, and members of the school board in each of the wards in the parish.
The Parish Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer; other elected officers include the coroner, assessor, and clerk of court. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace for the parish's 8th ward (Robert, Louisiana), attracted attention in October 2009 for refusing to officiate the wedding of an interracial couple. Bardwell, a justice of the ...
The Shreve Memorial Library in Shreveport located downtown in the former US post office and courthouse. Caddo Parish (French: Paroisse de Caddo) (/ ˈ k æ d oʊ /) is a parish located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 237,848. [1]
Acadia Parish Clerk of Court; Acadia Parish Tourist Commission; Acadia Parish GIS Maps; Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office Archived August 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine; Geology Heinrich, P. V., J. Snead, and R. P. McCulloh, 2003, Crowley 30 x 60 minute geologic quadrangle. Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office is headquartered at the courthouse annex in Houma. It has about three hundred employees. [30] The office is organized into a number of divisions including: Administration, criminal, civil, communications, corrections, and water Patrol. [31] Timothy Soignet, the current sheriff, took office on July 1, 2020.