Acadia Parish Police Jury

What Acadia Parish Police Jury does

Acadia Parish Police Jury is the statutory governing authority of Acadia Parish, Louisiana, operating under the state's police jury system. It functions as both a legislative and administrative body, enacting ordinances, setting policy, preparing budgets, and directing parish activities through eight elected jurors representing single-member districts. It serves the residents and unincorporated areas of Acadia Parish (population roughly 57,000-58,000) with a portfolio of public services delivered through dedicated departments.

Core operational departments include Road Maintenance (serving approximately 705 miles of parish roads via three barns — Branch, Crowley, and Iota), Solid Waste (operating the Acadia Parish Landfill in Egan plus parish-wide recycling centers), Building Permits and Code Enforcement, Animal Control, Mosquito Control (delivered in partnership with VDCI), Emergency Preparedness/Homeland Security, Building & Grounds (courthouse maintenance), Le Gros Memorial Airport, Community Clinics, and the Rice Arena (an equestrian, livestock, and agricultural events facility offering RV sites, horse stalls, and arena rentals). Multiple special service districts operate within the parish, including 11 fire protection districts, 10+ drainage districts, and water corporations. The core technology stack consists of standard municipal government IT infrastructure; no proprietary technology, AI/ML capabilities, or APIs are disclosed.

The revenue model is that of a parish government: primary funding comes from ad valorem and sales taxes, intergovernmental transfers, and special district assessments, supplemented by user fees for building permits, facility rentals (Rice Arena RV sites at $33/night, horse stalls at $16.50/night, arena rentals at $30-$450), landfill tipping, and miscellaneous service charges. A proposed Acadia Economic Development District No. 1 (announced November 2022) contemplates up to 2% additional sales tax and 2% hotel occupancy tax to finance economic development projects. Distribution is fully direct — services are delivered in-house to residents within the parish's geographic boundaries, with no external markets or geographic expansion. Note: firmographics in the input data label the entity as a "for_profit private" company, but the underlying source material consistently identifies it as a government_state_entity under Louisiana law; this analysis treats it as a parish-level government body, which is the authoritative classification.

Name

Acadia Parish Police Jury

Legal name

Acadia Parish Police Jury

Website

https://appj.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Acadia Parish Police Jury is the statutory governing authority of Acadia Parish, Louisiana, providing public services — including road maintenance, solid waste, mosquito control, building permits, animal control, emergency preparedness, and the Rice Arena facility — to parish residents through elected jurors and dedicated operational departments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Crowley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Others

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Acadia Parish Police Jury is the parish-level governing authority that delivers essential public services to Acadia Parish residents. Core services include road and bridge maintenance across approximately 705 miles of parish roads, solid waste collection and landfill operations, building permit issuance and code enforcement, animal control, mosquito control, emergency preparedness, economic development support, and operation of community facilities including the Rice Arena and Le Gros Memorial Airport.

Product overview

Acadia Parish Police Jury is a local government entity that provides various public services and administrative functions for Acadia Parish, Louisiana. The organization operates as a legislative and administrative body with multiple departments and service districts rather than a commercial product company. Services include road maintenance, solid waste management, building permits, animal control, mosquito control, emergency preparedness, economic development, and community facilities such as the Rice Arena and Le Gros Memorial Airport. The organization maintains code of ordinances, service districts (drainage, fire protection, water corporations), and financial administration through its various departments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Road Maintenance

Quantifiable outcome

• Largest road and drainage project ever undertaken in the parish completed on schedule and within budget
• +1 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• VDCI (Vector Disease Control International)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcadia Parish partners with VDCI to provide a fully integrated pest management program for the control of disease vectors and nuisance mosquitoes. VDCI operates from Acadia Parish office at 256 Industrial Drive, Rayne, LA 70578, providing scientific and environmentally sound mosquito control techniques including surveillance, chemical and biological control, public education, and encephalitis surveillance.
• Acadia Parish Chamber of CommercecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcadia Parish Police Jury works with the Acadia Parish Chamber of Commerce to help those interested in economic development in Acadia Parish. This includes helping those interested in business expansion, relocation and start ups.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• St. Landry Parish Government: Neighboring Acadiana-region parish government providing comparable public works, permitting, and public safety services. Operates under a Police Jury-form parish government structure.
• Calcasieu Parish Police Jury: Louisiana parish government operating under the same Police Jury system, with comparable responsibilities for roads, drainage, solid waste, permits, and public safety. SW Louisiana peer with similar governance structure.
• Jefferson Davis Parish Police Jury: Neighboring Acadia Parish under the same Police Jury system in SW Louisiana. Operates the same core service lines (road maintenance, drainage, mosquito control, solid waste) at a similar rural scale.
• Iberia Parish Government: Parish government in the Acadiana region delivering the same core public services as ACPJ (roads, drainage, solid waste, permits, public safety). Operates under a parish-government model, though with a consolidated governance structure.
• Cameron Parish Police Jury: Louisiana parish operating under the same Police Jury system with a similar rural-service profile. Offers a directly comparable set of parish-level public services and governance structure.
• Evangeline Parish Police Jury: Adjacent rural Louisiana parish operating under the same Police Jury system. Provides a directly comparable set of parish services (road, drainage, solid waste, permits) at a similar rural scale.
• Beauregard Parish Police Jury: Louisiana parish government using the same Police Jury structure, with directly comparable responsibilities for road maintenance, drainage, solid waste, and public safety services.
• Vermilion Parish Police Jury: Immediate neighboring parish to Acadia using the identical Police Jury governance structure; delivers the same core menu of parish services (roads, drainage, landfill, permits) to a rural coastal population.
• Lafayette Parish Government (Lafayette Consolidated Government): Parish-level government operating in the same Acadiana region of Louisiana, providing the same overarching mix of public works, permitting, solid waste, and public safety services. Although larger and structured as a consolidated government/city-parish, it is the closest functional analog in scale and service mix.
• Allen Parish Police Jury: Louisiana parish operating under the same Police Jury system with a comparable rural profile and service mix (roads, drainage, solid waste, permits, public safety).

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/AcadiaParishPoliceJury
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/acadia-parish-police-jury

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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