Plus a year in review from our weekly podcast Behind The Lens. A vote to hand control of McDonogh 35 to a charter group means New Orleans is likely to become the first major city in the country without traditional, direct-run schools. And one of the city’s most desirable elementary schools will not accept new pre-K students next year. […]
Software package can track movement and identify objects and people. The suite also includes “predictive policing” software, but officials say the city isn’t using it. […]
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Surveillance of a drug suspect may have violated his civil rights, his lawyer tells The Lens. Police report claims an undercover officer was on the scene, but that’s not clear. […]
Trash clean-up plan includes at least 10 new cameras linked to the city’s Real Time Crime Monitoring Center. The monitoring center collects footage from more than 300 cameras around the city, the Mayor’s Office said. […]
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Opponents said the cameras would’ve infringed on people’s privacy. […]
A new report critical of the rapid data-center ramp-up across the South describes it as ‘Big Tech, following in the footsteps of Big Oil.’ […]
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Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency […]
Delaney Dryfoos on what the Alabo Street Wharf development may mean for neighbors. Matthew Wollenweber on NOPD’s use of surveillance, including 5,000 cameras and partnerships that use facial recognition technology. […]
Read More… from Behind the Lens episode 279: ‘Incompetent or lying’
“After years of FOIA requests and research, I know that NOPD is lying about their unlawful use of Project NOLA and facial-recognition software,” says the writer. The surveillance-camera issue is slated to be discussed at 10 a.m. today (Monday) at the City Council’s criminal-justice committee meeting. […]
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At a meeting, community members raise questions about the police department’s newest surveillance technology. […]
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