Terrebonne Sheriff Tim Soignet has apologized for using a term at last week s Parish Council meeting that in the past was used to describe people with mental disabilities.
While addressing the council during a heated discussion about installing traffic cameras in school zones, the sheriff used the word, now widely considered derogatory, to criticize a portion of the language in the ordinance.
The council delayed the traffic-camera proposal 30 days while parish attorneys examine any legal issues associated with the program.
“We need to get something done and things need to move,” Soignet said during Wednesday night s meeting. “If it takes 30 days, I’m willing. (Parish Attorney Jules Hebert), that last statement at the bottom, they asked us to put it in. I thought it was r d, but we did it.”