BATON ROUGE – Ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations, security preparations are happening here in Baton Rouge to ensure everyone can ring in 2026 safely.
“Our intelligence division has its eyes and ears open, following social media, programming, and messaging, and listening to any potential, possible calls that may come in again, letting folks know weapons are not allowed in the city limits of Baton Rouge. Do not bring any guns or firearms into the downtown area,” Baton Rouge Police Public Information Officer L’jean McKneely said.
While Baton Rouge won’t have the National Guard on patrols, you will see extra policemen on duty…