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 ...

City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.

Minutes after Louisiana State Police got word on Friday morning that 10 inmates had escaped a New Orleans jail, two of them were spotted on facial recognition cameras in the city’s French Quarter.

New Orleans, home of Bourbon Street revelry, has become the first American city known to have a live facial recognition network. How that came to be is a story of private initiative and political ...

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 — 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 ...