King v. Lafayette Parish Communication District 911

It GREMILLION, Judge.

In this case, the plaintiff, Rosa King, appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants, the Lafayette City Police Department (LPD) and the Lafayette Communications Service District (“911”), dismissing her claim.1 For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Sharonetha King and others, who are not parties to this appeal, filed suit in March 1996, against the defendants alleging that 911 was negligent in failing to immediately dispatch LPD in an emergency and that LPD was negligent for failing to arrive on the scene…