BATON ROUGE — Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome named Thomas Morse, Jr. as the new police chief for the city of Baton Rouge on Thursday, selecting a replacement for Murphy Paul, who was named to the post in late 2017. Here s a timeline of how the selection process progressed:
UPDATE: The council narrowed down the list to the following five candidates: BRPD Captain David Wallace, BRPD Sergeant and Training Academy Director Sharon Douglas, BRPD Deputy Chief Myron Daniels,, BRPD Commander in Training Services Division Thomas Morse, Jr., and Thomas Glover.
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A spokesman at city hall said Chief David Zibolski claimed releasing the information would create undue influence. However, that is not a legal reason under North Dakota law.