Orleans County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Orleans County.
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ALPR
- Automated license plate readers (ALPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle license plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring. Extends the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas, which enumerates real-time crime centers and camera registries but not standalone fixed-camera estates.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by agency
New Orleans Police Department
The New Orleans Police Department uses Idemia face recognition technology.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): ProtocolPoliticoNew Orleans Police Department
The New Orleans Police Department owned 46 automated license plate readers as of 2017.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Times Picayune
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.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): U.S Department of Justice
The New Orleans Police Department operates a camera registry through its "SafeCam" program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): City of New Orleans
New Orleans Office of Homeland Security
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.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The LensNew Orleans Homeland SecurityGovernment Computer News
Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office
The Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office had 125 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
Tulane University Police Department
The Tulane University Police Department had 100 body-worn cameras, according to a 2019 survey.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice
Algiers Development District
The Algiers Development District approved the installation of 10 Flock Safety cameras in 2018.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Algiers Development District
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026