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  "name": "Jeff Landry",
  "office": null,
  "role": "Governor of Louisiana",
  "country": "US",
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      "slug": "2024-louisiana-enacts-police-buffer-zone-law",
      "title": "United States (Louisiana): 25-foot buffer zone law around police officers, May 2024",
      "occurred_on": "2024-05-24",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "US",
      "country_name": "United States",
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      "outcome": "ongoing",
      "outcome_on": "2025-01-31",
      "outcome_note": "Enforcement blocked by a preliminary injunction on 2025-01-31 while the case is pending; Louisiana's appeal was reported pending as of mid-2026.",
      "stage": "restrict",
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      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 64,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
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      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
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      "summary": "On May 28, 2024, the governor of Louisiana, a state in the southern United States, Jeff Landry, signed a law that makes it a crime to stay within 25 feet (about 7.6 metres) of a working law enforcement officer after the officer has told a person to step back. The law applies to everyone, including journalists. Supporters described it as protecting officers' safety while they work. On January 31, 2025, a federal judge blocked its enforcement while a challenge to it is decided.",
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      "slug": "2025-federal-judge-blocks-louisiana-buffer-law",
      "title": "United States (Louisiana): Federal court order blocking enforcement of the police buffer zone law, January 2025",
      "occurred_on": "2025-01-31",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "US",
      "country_name": "United States",
      "continent": "north-america",
      "jurisdiction": "US-LA",
      "level": "state_or_province",
      "tactic_primary": "access_ban",
      "tactics": [
        "access_ban"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "jeff-landry",
      "leader_name": "Jeff Landry",
      "issue_of_the_day": null,
      "outcome": "ongoing",
      "outcome_on": "2025-01-31",
      "outcome_note": "Preliminary injunction granted 2025-01-31; Louisiana's appeal was reported pending as of mid-2026.",
      "stage": "restrict",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 64,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "On January 31, 2025, Judge John W. deGravelles of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, a federal trial court, blocked enforcement of the state's 25-foot (7.6-metre) police buffer zone law with a preliminary injunction, an order that keeps the situation as it is while a case is decided. He wrote that \"the distance required is likely to impede Plaintiffs' non-obstructive newsgathering\" and that \"the Act has a chilling effect on Plaintiffs' First Amendment rights.\" The plaintiffs included journalists and civil rights observers. Louisiana was reported to be appealing the order.",
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