Surveillance. New Orleans City Council Considers Ordinance To Adopt Real-Time Facial Recognition Technology America is slipping steadily down the slippery slope to a surveillance state.

A project called ELISIUM is underway that could become a model for city development and it’s betting big on artificial ...

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) secretly received real-time, AI-generated alerts from 200 facial recognition cameras throughout the city for two years, despite a city ordinance barring ...

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.

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Bryan Lagarde, executive director of Project N.O.L.A., a nonprofit that runs facial recognition surveillance cameras in New Orleans, watches the monitors in his office, May 19, 2025.

While the smart city is no longer the hot new thing in government technology circles, it contributed a lot at its peak, and it continues to do so today.

He toured centers in New York City and Philadelphia as part of his training at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The technology would all be linked to the Fusus platform and the idea ...