BR Corruption: Record Request Results for City Contracts

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The data portion of the BRAVE program was provided by LSU, at a cost of $125,000 per year. When Broome took office in January she canceled that contract. Since that time Baton Rouge has lost the federal funding for the BRAVE program and by all indications it appears dead – which is a bad sign given the sizable spike in violent crime in the Capitol City this year compared to 2016.

Yesterday, Broome was put on the spot regarding her relationship with Reed, given his outrageous statements at Wednesday’s Metro Council meeting, essentially calling the white community in Baton Rouge a “confederacy” and characterizing the mass murder of Baton Rouge law enforcement officers by domestic terrorist Gavin Long as “justice.” TV station WAFB sent in a public records request asking for any records of contracts Broome might have had with Reed; that led to her announcing she had disassociated herself with Reed, who had served on a citizen’s advisory board regarding police practices earlier this year, and that she had canceled a contract awarded to Reed under the BRAVE program as a “street counselor” – something nobody seems to have a definition for.


"THE SERVICE PROVIDER WILL PROVIDE ON-DEMAND LOGISTICAL AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR THE BRAVE PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS AS NEEDED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, COURT APPEARANCES, MEDICAL, SOCIAL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS BETWEEN THE HOURS OF”

Dunn has a courier service. He got hired to turn it into a taxi service to take BRAVE participants around town, for $17,500. Naw, that’s not a political payoff.




“PROVIDER WILL RECRUIT A MINIMUM OF 30 YOUTH TO PARTICIPATE IN THE (YES) YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS PROGRAM. PROVIDE GROUP LEADERS AND ASSISTANT GROUP LEADERS. IMPLEMENT THE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS CURRICULUM FROM THE”

The Youth Empowerment Solutions Program must be a big deal. Because the Louisiana Center For Health Equity picked up $16,000 for their 30 kids, as did the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church. Baptist Builders International got $12,000 for their 30 kids – they need better negotiating skills, it appears – and Assisi House, Inc. is on the list for $16,000 as well, though no minimum number of recruits is specified.



“SERVICE PROVIDER WILL SERVE AS A FACILITATOR/ CONSULTANT TO PLAN AND ORGANIZE A NETWORK OF TEAMS/PLAYERS TO HOST TWO COMMUNITY SPORTING EVENTS FOR YOUTH AND ADULTS TARGETING THOSE ZIP CODES 70805 AND 70802”

He got $9,500 to host a couple of basketball tournaments. Oh, and wait – Marshall wasn’t the only one getting paid for that. The same description appears on a line item for $9,500 for one Zuri Sanchez, who our research indicates is a wide receiver at Madison Prep Academy in Baton Rouge who will graduate from high school next spring.




And theres way more.