Louisiana Voice

A Jackson Parish resident has filed multiple complaints with state officials about what he perceives as harassment and other illegal or ethical activities on the part of the Jackson Parish Sheriff’s Office.

The state’s response?

His concerns were turned over to “the external auditor for the Jackson Parish Sheriff.”

In other words, the state, rather than initiating its own investigation into the validity of Tommy McDougald’s complaints, has more or less directed the sheriff to investigate himself.

An “external auditor” may either be the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office or a local independent certified public accounting firm as mandated by state law. Local independent CPA firms may serve as an alternative to the state auditor.

In McDougald’s case, he was notified by email on Wednesday (Sept. 23) that his file was being sent to the “external auditor” without specifying if “external” mean a state auditor of an independent CPA but it would seem to imply the latter.

“If the auditor finds any merit to the complaints, there will be a finding in the audit report due to our office December 31, 2026,” the three-sentence email concluded.

McDougald, a resident of the Jackson Parish Town of Chatham, began having problems with the sheriff’s office when two of his pet cats disappeared about the time the sheriff’s office was capturing cats and sending them to unknown locations. He never found his cats but soon after he lodged his first complaints, he said he felt deputies were stalking and surveilling him.

He even provided video evidence of two sheriff’s vehicles parked outside his home but a deputy later explained the office was “investigating” a burglary in McDougald’s neighborhood.

McDougald has also filed complaints about Sheriff Brent Barnett’s illegal use of a departmental vehicle for campaigning for office, of his hiring an executive administrative assistant who is a convicted felon for the theft of public funds while working in nearby Bienville Parish. He also has accused the department of “intentional database manipulation.”

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“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

–Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. (This basic canon has never changed, Mein Führer)

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A reader sent LouisianaVoice an email listing the 12 common signs of narcissiam (Goose, you’ll just have to google the term if you want to know what it means. Hint: it has nothing to do with “dumacrat commies” but does seem to describe someone who has made a habit of snuggling up to certain communists named Kim and Vladimir). I decided to repost the list in its entirety.

It may remind you of someone who’s been in the news a lot:

• Grandiose Sense of Self-Importance: Exaggerating achievements, talents, or status while expecting to be recognized as superior without matching accomplishments.
• Fantasies of Power and Success: Preoccupation with daydreams about unlimited brilliance, power, beauty, or ideal love.
• Belief in Being “Special”: Conviction that they are unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other high-status people or institutions.
• Constant Need for Admiration: Requiring excessive validation, praise, and attention to prop up a fragile internal self-esteem.
• Strong Sense of Entitlement: Unreasonable expectations of special, favorable treatment or automatic compliance from others.
• Exploitative Behavior: Interpersonally taking advantage of friends, partners, or colleagues to achieve their own ends.
• Lack of Empathy: An inability or unwillingness to recognize, identify with, or care about the feelings and needs of others.
• Frequent Envy: Being intensely jealous of others or believing that other people are constantly envious of them.
• Arrogant or Haughty Attitudes: Displaying snobby, disdainful, or condescending behavior toward people they deem ordinary.
• Boundary Issues and Control: Disrespecting personal limits and attempting to control the choices, privacy, or emotions of those around them.
• Blame-Shifting and Low Accountability: Refusing to take responsibility for mistakes and deflecting blame onto others.
• Fragile Self-Esteem and Sensitivity to Criticism: Reacting to perceived slights, disagreements, or minor critiques with intense defensiveness, rage, or shame.

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