Lafayette Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet took office. She is joined by a new leadership staff who assume the most important administrative responsibilities.
After three days of a disruptive boil water advisory affecting a substantial area of Lafayette, local residents and businesses can now breathe a sigh of relief.
Towards the end of 2020 into 2021 Lafayette Consolidated Government began cracking down on panhandling. One homeless man challenged that crackdown in federal court and won.