BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Gov. Bobby Jindal’s prayer rally held at LSU in January ended up costing Louisiana taxpayers $10,289 in overtime paid to state police officers.

Jindal’s rally, officially called The Response, was held Jan. 24 inside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center (PMAC) on LSU’s Baton Rouge campus. NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports (http://bit.ly/1E11JIB) state troopers racked up a total of 256 hours of overtime for the rally. That’s according to documents the newspaper received through a public records request.

Col. Mike Edmonson, head of the state police, says he ended up using a large number of officers because it wasn’t clear what type of public safety issues might arise at the rally.

Jindal’s office said the governor was not involved in state police staffing decisions for the event.