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County record · Louisiana

Orleans County

9 Deployments on record
5 Agencies
6 Technology categories

Technology presence

ALPR · 2 Fixed cameras & RTCC · 1 Face recognition · 1 Drones / UAS · 1 Gunshot detection · none on record Body-worn & dashcam · 3 Doorbell & camera registry · 1 Cell-site simulators · none on record Predictive policing · none on record Social-media monitoring · none on record

The record, by agency

New Orleans Police Department

New Orleans · 5 deployments · on UnGovr: City of New Orleans

ALPR

The New Orleans Police Department owned 46 automated license plate readers as of 2017.

Body-worn & dashcam

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded $237,000 to the New Orleans Police Department in 2015 as part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's body-worn camera grant program.

Doorbell & camera registry

The New Orleans Police Department operates a camera registry through its "SafeCam" program.

Drones / UAS

The New Orleans Police Department uses drones.

Face recognition Vendor: Idemia

The New Orleans Police Department uses Idemia face recognition technology.

Algiers Development District

New Orleans · 1 deployment

ALPR Vendor: Flock Safety

The Algiers Development District approved the installation of 10 Flock Safety cameras in 2018.

New Orleans Office of Homeland Security

New Orleans · 1 deployment

Fixed cameras & RTCC

The New Orleans Police Department opened its real-time crime center in November 2017 as a part of the $40-million Citywide Public Safety Improvement Plan. As of December 2018, the RTCC employs a staff of 18 and accesses more than 340 cameras. In February 2018, there were plans to spend another $2.5 million on cameras and installation, including 120 automated license plate readers and up to 250 more cameras.

Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office

New Orleans · 1 deployment · on UnGovr: Orleans Parish

Body-worn & dashcam

The Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office had 125 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.

Tulane University Police Department

New Orleans · 1 deployment

Body-worn & dashcam

The Tulane University Police Department had 100 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.

Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026