{"id":61255,"date":"2025-06-12T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61255"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:14:31","slug":"wapo-new-orleans-pushes-to-legalize-police-use-of-facial-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61255","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of \u2018facial surveillance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/06\/12\/facial-recognition-new-orleans-artificial-intelligence\/\">New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of \u2018facial surveillance\u2019<\/a> by Douglas MacMillan<br \/>(&#8220;New Orleans is considering easing restrictions on the police use of facial recognition, weeks after The Washington Post reported that police there secretly relied on a network of AI-powered surveillance cameras to identify suspects on the street and arrest them. According to the draft of a proposed ordinance posted to a city website, police would be permitted to use automated facial recognition tools to identify and track the movements of wanted subjects, missing people or suspected perpetrators of serious crimes \u2014 reversing the city\u2019s broad prohibition against using facial recognition as a &#8216;surveillance tool.&#8217; \u2026 If the rule passes, New Orleans would become the first U.S. city to formally allow facial recognition as a tool for surveilling residents in real time.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of \u2018facial surveillance\u2019 by Douglas MacMillan(&#8220;New Orleans is considering easing restrictions on the police use of facial recognition, weeks after The Washington Post reported that police there secretly relied on a network &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facial-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61256,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61255\/revisions\/61256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}