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One Year of New Orleans Police Department Facial Recognition Data
Loaded on April 15, 2024
by Michael Thompson
published in Criminal Legal News
April, 2024, page 39
Filed under:
Racial Profiling,
Police State-Surveillance,
Electronic Surveillance.
Location:
Louisiana.
by Michael Dean Thompson
About a year after the New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD”) performed its first facial recognition scan under a new policy that reauthorized its use, they have little to show for it. That is according to NOPD’s own data, which was analyzed by Politico. The …
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