It’s shady as fuck and part of a very long and convoluted story. This guy’s private surveillance company popped up in New Orleans in the middle of a secret partnership with Palantir.
It’s also confusing bc as of the city council meeting on 6/30, NOPD said they wanted the ordinance to use facial recognition tech in their own crime cameras (separate from ProjectNola).
Yesterday was supposed to be the day the ordinance was discussed, but the city council meeting was just cancelled with no notification and no information provided.
NOPD argues the ability to use real time facial recognition tracking in their system would at least give them more control bc they knew that ProjectNola was already working with the state police and ICE.
Except as of today, a state law kicks in and it becomes illegal for police to refuse a federal immigration order or “hinder” (yes it’s definitely intentionally vague what exactly that means) federal immigration.
There also seems to be contradicting evidence about how separate the city’s own real time crime camera program and ProjectNola are.
archchan@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Bryan Lagarde.
Have fun!