Acadia Parish, Louisiana

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Acadia Parish is one of sixty-four parishes located in Louisiana. The parish seat is Crowley. In 2000, the population was 58,861. The parish was founded from parts of St. Landry Parish in 1887 after an election to determine the parish seat, ending when Crowley beat Rayne and Prairie Hayes.

Contents 1 Transparency of Acadia's website 1.1 The Good 1.2 The Bad 2 Cities and towns 3 Education 4 External links

Transparency of Acadia's website

The Good

• A full listing of Police Jurors and contact information.^[1]

• Administrative officials are listed and have contact information.^[2]

• Meeting dates are listed^[3] and agendas^[4]

The Bad

• Budget information is not listed.

• No information is provided about how parish residents can request access to public documents of the parish under Louisiana's sunshine laws.

• Parish audits, contracts, and tax information is not online.

• To compare Acadia with other Louisiana parishes, see Websites of the Louisiana parishes.

Cities and towns

Church Point Crowley Duson

Estherwood Eunice

Iota Mermentau

Morse Rayne

Education

Acadia Parish is served by Arcadia Parish Schools [1].

External links

• Acadia Parish Police Jury
• Acadia Parish Clerk of Court
• Acadia Parish Tourist Commission
• Acadia Parish Police Jury

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