New Orleans Police Reportedly Used Real-Time Facial Recognition Alerts Supplied by Project NOLA Despite Local Ordinance

Summary

New Orleans police reportedly received real-time facial recognition alerts from a privately operated surveillance network run by Project NOLA, reportedly leading to dozens of arrests. This purported use of AI surveillance appears to conflict with a 2022 city ordinance that restricts facial recognition to specific post-incident investigations. Police are alleged to have not consistently disclosed the technology's use.

Developers

• Facial recognition system developers
• Dahua Technology

Deployers

• Project NOLA
• New Orleans Police Department
• Law enforcement
• Facial recognition system deployers

Harmed parties

• Residents subject to live surveillance in New Orleans
• Privacy
• People misidentified by facial recognition systems
• General public of New Orleans
• General public
• Arrested individuals in New Orleans
• General public of the United States
• Biometric data subjects

Tags

• facial recognition
• computer vision
• surveillance
• real-time surveillance
• automated face matching
• watchlist detection
• AI alert system
• law enforcement
• public safety
• policing
• police
• municipal use
• urban surveillance
• third-party deployment
• private-public surveillance partnership
• due process violation
• wrongful arrest risk
• transparency failure
• regulatory violation
• surveillance overreach
• privacy harm
• civil liberties concern
• racial bias risk
• gender bias risk
• accountability gap
• unlawful deployment
• New Orleans
• Louisiana
• United States
• New Orleans Police Department
• Project NOLA
• Plainview
• ENS Security
• Dahua Technology
• syndicated