Headed to New Orleans for the Super Bowl or Mardi Gras? Here’s a Safety Guide.

As the host city for Super Bowl LIX, New Orleans expects to welcome more than 100,000 visitors for the Feb. 9 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. At least a million more people will be celebrating Mardi Gras, the city’s biggest tourist draw annually, less than a month later.

But a terrorist attack on New Year’s Day, which killed 14 people and injured dozens more on the tourist-filled thoroughfare of Bourbon Street, has cast a pall over the city.

Since then, local, state and federal officials have sought to reassure visitors regarding the city’s safety for the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras. New or expanded security efforts are planned, including aerial surveillance and assigning more plainclothes officers. Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency responsible for public security, including antiterrorism and disaster prevention, upgraded its security assessment of the city’s Mardi Gras parades to its highest rating, which allows for additional funding and resources to be supplied. The Super Bowl was already assessed at its highest level.

“We are doing everything we can to address the gaps that the New Orleans Police Department and the Louisiana State Police might have,” said Eric DeLaune, a special agent with D.H.S.’s Homeland Security Investigations who is leading the federal coordination for Super Bowl and Mardi Gras.

According to the Homeland Security Investigations office, security efforts for both events will include special agents stationed on rooftops and in the crowds, SWAT team members on standby, surveillance drones, extra security cameras around the city, armored vehicles placed at key points, K-9 officers with bomb-sniffing dogs, and patrols along the Mississippi River. Intelligence analysts will also be working to identify potential threats.

During the Super Bowl and its related events, agents will concentrate on the neighborhoods near Caesars Superdome: the Warehouse District and the French Quarter. During Mardi Gras, the efforts will be more widespread across the city.

The Homeland Security Investigations office and the city of New Orleans declined to provide specific numbers of law enforcement officers who will be on duty between local, state and national agencies, but in a statement the city said that the New Orleans Police Department “will be staffed at 100 percent.”

Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick of the New Orleans Police Department said at a Jan. 10 news conference that…