“It’s really unfortunate that police are continuing to single out, target, falsely arrest and essentially ruin the lives of gay men in Baton Rouge who are engaged in no illegal conduct.”

– Andrea J. Ritchie, a civil rights attorney, commenting on revelations that the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office has been camping out in public parks and attempting to entrap gay men who are soliciting sex, using a sodomy law which has been found invalid by the courts.