At least a dozen men since 2011 in Baton Rouge have been arrested
under an unenforceable law "to ensnare men who merely discussed or
agreed to have consensual sex with an undercover agent," an
investigation by The Advocate magazine found.
The District Attorney said his office refused to prosecute each of
the cases because no crime was found to have occurred, and a Sheriff's
Office spokeswoman denied to the Advocate that investigators had been
misapplying the anti-sodomy law, which is currently a state-statute.
“This is a law that is currently on the Louisiana books, and the
sheriff is charged with enforcing the laws passed by our Louisiana
Legislature,” Casey Rayborn Hicks, a Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman, said.
“Whether the law is valid is something for the courts to determine, but
the sheriff will enforce the laws that are enacted."
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