city code seems to be here https://library.municode.com/la/new_orleans/codes/code_of_or..., Sec 147-2 'prohibited surveillance technology'

aclu article on wapo's reporting https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/208236

2022 local coverage when the city ordinance was passed:

https://thelensnola.org/2022/08/04/council-passes-guardrails...

> one of the primary components of the measure — that police get approval of a judge or a magistrate commissioner prior to requesting the use of facial recognition — was removed prior to passage due to objections from criminal district court judges, who said they needed a better understanding of the technology

> the measure also clarifies that the technology cannot be used to investigate aboritions or any consenual sex acts between adults “including without limitation any law purporting to criminalize sexual contact between same-sex partners.” Performing abortions is now a crime under Louisiana’s “trigger law,”

> The council banned the use of facial recognition technology in 2020 as part of a broader ordinance aimed at regulating surveillance technology in the city, which also banned characteristic tracking software, cell-site simulators, and predictive policing

> after a push from Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration and NOPD leadership amid a recent spike in homicides and other violent crimes, the council voted 5-2 last month to permit NOPD to access facial recognition technology in order to investigate certain crimes

This is why I have no problem with annoying 1A auditors. If the government wants to systematically record everyone and identify them, it should be no problem if some annoying autist with nothing else to do records every library, police station, city counsel, post office, court clerk, child welfare agency, and documents everything happening in public view.