New Orleans’s use of automated facial recognition has not been previously reported and is the first known widespread effort by police in a major U.S. city to use AI to identify people in live ...

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 ...

New Orleans police secretly used facial recognition on over 200 live camera feeds NEW ORLEANS, LA - NOVEMBER 20: Bourbon street sign in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 20, 1981.

Last month, the New Orleans Police Department suspended its use of AI-equipped facial recognition cameras during crime investigations. At issue is whether NOPD's use of technology from Project ...

In the US, New Orleans stands out for taking a step further than law enforcement in other regions by using live feeds from facial recognition cameras to make immediate arrests, the Post noted.

After years of FOIA requests and research, security engineer Matthew Wollenweber knows that NOPD is lying about their unlawful use of Project NOLA and facial-recognition software, he writes.

We call on the New Orleans Police Department and the City of New Orleans to halt this program indefinitely and terminate all use of live-feed facial recognition technology. The ACLU of Louisiana will ...

New Orleans is considering easing restrictions on the police use of facial recognition, weeks after The Washington Post reported that police there secretly relied on a network of AI-powered ...

Bryan Lagarde, executive director of Project N.O.L.A., a nonprofit that runs facial recognition surveillance cameras in New Orleans, watches the monitors in his office, May 19, 2025.

Controversial cameras may offer clues in NOLA jailbreak by Mills Hayes and Jeff Arnold - 05/24/25 8:34 AM ET ...

New Orleans' police force secretly used ... the first known case in a major US city where police used AI-powered automated facial recognition to identify people in live camera feeds for the ...