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The police operation for the 43
rd annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade has concluded.
A high-visibility operation was launched across the operation footprint which included Moore Park, Oxford Street, Hyde Park and public transport routes to and from the area.
Due to COVID-19, the traditional Mardi Gras parade was replaced by a ticketed, COVID-safe event within the Sydney Cricket Stadium (SCG) at Moore Park today (Saturday 6 March 2021). This ensured COVID-safe protocols could be adhered to, including contact tracing and social distancing.
The focus of the police operation was to monitor for compliance with current Public Health Orders and the safety of all participants and spectators. This involved general duties officers, assisted by specialist units, including the Public Order and Riot Squad, Operations Support Group, Dog and Mounted Unit, PolAir, Licensing Police, Traffic and Highway Patrol Command and Police Transport Command.
Five years before five members of a Baton Rouge-area groundwater commission were charged with conflict-of-interest violations, an attorney for the commission warned of exactly the problem that led to the charges, commission records show.
In mid-2015, former Assistant Attorney General Megan K. Terrell, then the groundwater commission s legal advisor, concluded that state ethics law could bar commissioners from drawing a salary from the big groundwater users they were supposed to regulate, like Baton Rouge Water and ExxonMobil.
The 18-member Capital Area Ground Water Conservation Commission manages the Southern Hills aquifer, the drinking water source for nearly 600,000 people in the Baton Rouge area. The aquifer also supplies industries, farms, cattle ranches and others.