Bryan Lagarde, the architect of the Project NOLA crime camera network, says New Orleans can keep its hands off his facial recognition system.
The shopkeepers, schools and residents who signed up to host a high-resolution camera on the nonprofit network didn’t buy into government watch, Lagarde said. At least not this government.
Lagarde said officials with Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration recently proposed an agreement that would give the city’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness direct access to a system that can match faces on the street against uploaded images from a few blocks away…