Agency heads and their deputies from the Louisiana National Guard, Louisiana State Police, and New Orleans Police Department met at LANG’s headquarters at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans on October 3, 2025, to conduct preliminary contingency planning to improve public safety.

Maj. Gen. Thomas Friloux, adjutant general of Louisiana; Col. Robert Hodges, LSP superintendent and Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, NOPD superintendent are working together at the strategic level to develop a contingency plan for a LANG mobilization to the city. Federal funding for the pending mobilization has yet to be approved, and no troops are currently mobilized in Louisiana for public safety support. The LANG acknowledges Governor Landry’s request to the United States Department of War for Guardsmen to mobilize in areas throughout the State.

Further development is pending, and future meetings will be held at different levels to optimize teamwork and ensure the best implementation for increasing public safety should a mobilization occur.