Louisiana’s attorney general wants the Bossier Parish school system to be released from federal desegregation oversight. If successful, Attorney General Liz Murrill’s efforts would help end one of Louisiana’s longest-running school desegregation cases.
More than a dozen School systems across the state still have open cases from the 1960s.
As Louisiana Public Radio reports, the Bossier Parish School District has been under a court order since 1964. It requires the school district to submit monitoring reports to the U-S Department of Justice and to get a judge’s approval before making changes that could affect desegregation efforts.
Under Trump’s second term, the Justice Department has been more willing to close cases, and Murrill has successfully closed two so far in Plaquemines and DeSoto. Murrill filed a joint brief with the Justice Department and the Bossier Parish school board on Friday, June 12, 2026, asking a judge to dismiss the case, arguing the district has been compliant for decades, with no contested litigation between the parties in that time.
In a statement released to the public Murrill said, “The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that federal court supervision of local school systems is intended to be temporary.”
Murrill concluded, “The record demonstrates sustained compliance by the Bossier Parish School Board. It is long past due to return power back to the people of Bossier Parish and to their elected representatives on the School Board.”
There is currently no timetable for a ruling on the joint motion by United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr., for the Western District of Louisiana.
Bossier Parish Schools a Step Closer to Ending 62-Years of Federal Desegregation Court Supervision
