This report analyzes all New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) facial recognition technology requests from Q4 2022 through Q1 2025 to assess how FRT is being used and whom it impacts. We found that nearly all FRT requests targeted Black suspects, match rates were low, and several matches produced incorrect leads. Most cases with an FRT match remain open, and the data indicates that none of the FRT-generated matches resulted in the identification of the suspect.






