NEW ORLEANS --- For two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in any major American city that may violate munic…

Since early 2023, facial recognition cameras run by a private nonprofit have scanned New Orleans visitors and residents and quietly alerted police, sidestepping oversight and potentially violating city law, according to a new report.

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New Orleans police have secretly been using facial recognition software to monitor citizens in an effort to identify crime suspects, according to a new report.

And while police across the country are increasingly using such technology, an i…

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Facial recognition is credited with spotting two escaped inmates in the French Quarter last Friday morning (May 16).

Two hours after the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office sent a list of escaped inmates and their mugshots …

New Orleans' police force secretly used constant facial recognition to seek out suspects for two years. An investigation by The Washington Post discovered that the city's police department was using facial recognition technology on a privat…

Amid a Washington Post investigation and pushback from civil liberties defenders, New Orleans police recently paused their sweeping---and apparently unlawful---use without public oversight of a private network of over 200 surveillance camer…

New Orleans police have reportedly spent years scanning live feeds of city streets and secretly using facial recognition to identify suspects in real time---in seeming defiance of a city ordinance designed to prevent false arrests and prote…

NEW ORLEANS --- The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Louisiana are raising urgent concerns following an investigation that shows the New Orleans Police Department has secretly used real-time face recognition technology to track an…

New Orleans police paused its use of a privately run facial recognition camera network last month amid legal and privacy questions from The Washington Post.

Why it matters: It's likely the first AI-enhanced live surveillance system to be us…

This week, the New Orleans City Council's Criminal Justice Committee is expected to convene a hearing to address concerns about Project NOLA, a New Orleans-based nonprofit that manages a nationwide crime camera network that is at the center…

New Orleans police have secretly been using facial recognition software to monitor citizens in an effort to identify crime suspects, according to a new report.

And while police across the country are increasingly using such technology, an i…

In Louisiana, the New Orleans Police Department has reportedly paused its sweeping use of real-time facial recognition technology amid massive backlash following a Washington Post exposé. New Orleans police reportedly used a private network…

From 2022 to 2024, the New Orleans Police Department(NOPD) quietly operated a live facial recognition surveillance system across more than 200 camera feeds, bypassing legal restrictions and avoiding public disclosure, according to a new rep…

A new report has revealed that New Orleans police secretly used live facial recognition to identify people on city streets, in apparent violation of a 2022 law intended to limit the technology and protect civil rights.

According to The Wash…