BATON ROUGE, LA – Fresh off a trademark dispute with Friends of City Park Baton Rouge over the use of a public park’s name, BREC has reportedly expanded its enforcement efforts to ordinary taxpayers.
The first casualty was a Baton Rouge mother who posted family photos Saturday captioned, “Beautiful day at Highland Road Park.”
Within hours, she reportedly received a cease-and-desist letter demanding she stop using the taxpayer-funded park’s name without authorization.
“We encourage taxpayers to enjoy the parks they pay for,” a BREC spokesperson explained. “We just ask that discontinue the unauthorized use of actual park names on social media.”
BREC also warned that continued infringement could result in legal action, which officials confirmed would be funded using money collected from the same taxpayers being sued.
“It’s a remarkably efficient system,” one official said. “They provide the money, we hire the attorneys, then the attorneys sue them.”
The crackdown has reportedly sent residents scrambling to delete posts mentioning Bluebonnet Swamp, Liberty Lagoon and Perkins Road Community Park.
One terrified father even removed a 2019 photo captioned “Great day at the zoo,” replacing it with the legally safer, “Enjoying an unnamed taxpayer-funded animal facility somewhere north of Baton Rouge.”
