Due to continued severe weather and flooding risk throughout the state, Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne is announcing the closure of all state government offices beginning Thursday, March 10, at 1 p.m. in the following parishes: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupée, St. Bernard, St. Helena, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Washington, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana.
State offices in the following parishes remain closed Thursday: Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, DeSoto, Jackson, Lincoln, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Red River, Richland, Sabine, Union, Webster, West Carroll and Winn.
State offices in all 36 parishes listed above will remain closed through Friday, March 11.
State officials continue to monitor weather conditions throughout the state, and this announcement may be updated.