New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell last week requested an ordinance to reverse the city’s ban on using facial recognition, just over a year after implementing it.
New Orleans has had a ban on government use of facial recognition, as well as predictive policing technologies, since December 2020. (The ban is similar to that found in some other cities, including Boston, Portland and San Francisco.) A recent string of shootings and robberies led Cantrell to support a full reversal of the ban, which the city implemented after the New Orleans Police Department admitted to using facial recognition technology after years of denying that the city owned any such technology.
