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 ...

(TNS) — A powerful tool for catching criminals in New Orleans isn't being used these days by local police. But after the New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street and last month's jailbreak by 10 ...

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.

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 ...