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 ...

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.

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 ...