US EditionPolice secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras: Washington Post
- Since 2023, over 200 surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition technology have been deployed throughout New Orleans as part of Project NOLA, enabling real-time monitoring and alerts for law enforcement.
- This system emerged following the 2022 decision by New Orleans officials to end the city's facial recognition ban while retaining certain limitations, yet the surveillance operates in ways that bypass these restrictions.
- Project NOLA maintains a confidential watchlist containing thousands of images collected from police mugshot records, compiled without public awareness or procedural safeguards.
- The system sends real-time alerts based on unverified matches directly to officers’ phones, enabling immediate stops and detentions, while reports document at least one wrongful arrest due to a false match.
- The ACLU and ACLU of Louisiana have urged halting the program pending investigations and stronger safeguards, highlighting concerns about legality and potential impact on residents’ privacy rights.
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New Orleans Police Secretly Used Facial Recognition - Joe.My.God.
The Washington Post reports: 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 municipal guardrails around use of the technology, an investigation by The Washington Post has found. Police …
New Orleans Police Used Facial Recognition Cameras
Despite a city ordinance limiting its use to violent crime investigations, the New Orleans Police Department secretly employed a live facial recognition program through a private camera network for real-time suspect identification, raising concerns about unauthorized surveillance.
ACLU and ACLU of Louisiana Sound Alarm on New Orleans Police Department’s Secret Use of Real-Time Facial Recognition
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 and arrest residents without public oversight or City Council approval. This not only flouts local law, but endangers all of our civil liberties. This is the first known time an American police department has relied on live fac…
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