[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 246 (Thursday, December 22, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79649-79650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32800]


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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS


Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting of the Louisiana Advisory 
Committee

    Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the rules and 
regulations of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Commission), and 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), that a planning meeting of 
the

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Louisiana Advisory Committee (Committee) to the Commission will convene 
in Baton Rouge at Louisiana State University, Student Union Room 303, 
Raphael Semmes Road (corner of Raphael Semmes Road and Highland) at 2 
p.m. and adjourn at approximately 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2012. 
The purpose of this meeting is to continue planning the Committee's 
civil rights project. The Committee has invited Mr. Carle Jackson of 
the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement to provide preliminary 
information concerning potential racial disparities in the high 
incarceration of African-Americans in state operated prisons.
    This meeting is available to the public through the following call-
in number: (225) 578-4958, conference call access code number. Any 
interested member of the public may call this number and listen to the 
meeting. Callers can expect to incur charges for calls they initiate 
over wireless lines, and the Commission will not refund any incurred 
charges. Callers will incur no charge for calls they initiate over 
land-line connections to the toll-free telephone number. Persons with 
hearing impairments may also follow the proceedings by first calling 
the Federal Relay Service at 1-(800) 977-8339 and providing the Service 
with the conference call number and contact name Farella E. Robinson.
    To ensure that the Commission secures an appropriate number of 
lines for the public, persons are asked to register by contacting 
Corrine Sanders of the Central Regional Office and TTY/TDD telephone 
number, by 4 p.m. on January 19, 2012.
    Members of the public are entitled to submit written comments. The 
comments must be received in the regional office by February 7, 2012. 
The address is U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 400 State Avenue, Suite 
908, Kansas City, Kansas 66101. Comments may be emailed to 
[email protected]. Records generated by this meeting may be inspected 
and reproduced at the Central Regional Office, as they become 
available, both before and after the meeting. Persons interested in the 
work of this advisory committee are advised to go to the Commission's 
Web site, www.usccr.gov, or to contact the Central Regional Office at 
the above email or street address.
    The meeting will be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the 
rules and regulations of the Commission and FACA.

    Dated in Washington, DC, December 19, 2011.
Peter Minarik,
Acting Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.
[FR Doc. 2011-32800 Filed 12-21-11; 8:45 am]
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