SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - A new law in Louisiana requires schools to improve their emergency response and allows law enforcement to bypass public record regulations.

New law ACT 425, once known as SB126, requires mapping data of schools.

The law aims to tackle the rising safety concerns in the classroom.

“Having children in school and with all of the gun violence that we have in Shreveport, Bossier area nowadays, I feel like it would be a lot safer if we had police officers that are more involved with the school mapping of all schools, whether it’s preschool, high school, middle school, or just elementary,” says Joy Vinson, who has a son that attends school in Caddo Parish.

ACT 425 says that if schools make any updates to their mapping, they must inform all public safety agencies of the

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