NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans Police Department is holding firm on its April decision to suspend real-time facial recognition alerts from Project NOLA cameras, even as the City Council weighs ...

The chief says her decision to pause real-time facial recognition alerts from Project NOLA came after discovering that some officers had downloaded an app receiving live alerts directly from the ...

The New Orleans City Council is considering an ordinance that would allow the city's police department, in the name of fighting crime, to use real-time facial recognition technology to find and track ...

Across New Orleans, roughly 200 high-resolution cameras are equipped with artificial intelligence to scan the faces of pedestrians and run them through a database of criminal suspects. The privately ...

NEW ORLEANS — Security cameras have become a critical tool for local law enforcement, including facial recognition technology that helped lead to the very first arrest among the 10 inmates who escaped ...

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 ...

Every day I ride my bike down my block in Milan, a tight-knit residential neighborhood in central New Orleans. And every day, a surveillance camera follows me down the block. Despite the rosy rhetoric ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The police would activate real-time surveillance by uploading an image of a suspicious person into the facial recognition system.