Landry and co-author State Rep. Debbie Villio (R-Kenner)’s now-law requires a sheriff or jail leadership to immediately notify victims, witnesses, local law enforcement and media of an escape or if the inmate “left the premises of the facility without authority.”

Officials at a New Orleans correctional facility said they accidentally released 30-year-old Khalil Bryan after a clerical error.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson is in the midst of fresh controversy after her office mistakenly released the wrong detainee from the parish jail in what she described as a clerical error. Hutson announced the unintended release of Khalil Bryan, 30, Friday afternoon. He remained at-large as of Monday morning.