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.

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

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 ...

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 ...