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Don’t Spy on Me
Saturday, August 8 · 2:00 PM · The Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave · Free · No sign-up, no technical background required For years, I’ve pulled on a thread. NOPD kept telling the City Council one thing about surveillance; the records I requested told another. Thousands of pages later, here’s a sample of what…
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Jeff Landry’s Intelligence Chief is Spying on New Orleans with Project NOLA
Public records show GOHSEP’s Director of Intelligence was personally provisioned Project NOLA credentials. Nobody told the people being watched. On January 29, 2025, Mark Fontenot, Director of Intelligence for the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP), emailed Project NOLA founder Bryan Lagarde: “I just wanted to follow up regarding our conversation to…
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Watching City Council Agendas with a Claude Skill
I follow surveillance and policing-tech issues in New Orleans — drones, facial recognition, license plate readers. The decisions happen in council and committee meetings, but the only warning is an agenda PDF posted a few days beforehand. Miss the posting, miss the meeting. Lots of people have this problem: journalists, advocates, anyone tracking zoning or…
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Who’s Spying on New Orleans? A Citizen’s Guide to Fighting Local Surveillance
Saturday, August 8 at 2:00 PM | The Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave | Free — no registration required New Orleans has quietly become one of the most surveilled cities in America. A private nonprofit operates a network of over 5,000 cameras across the city, running live facial recognition on residents despite a city…
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NOPD’s Drone Policy Is Worthless.
404 Media just published an important story: New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones. Go read it. Matthew Gault and 404 Media do exactly the kind of journalism this city needs and rarely gets — actually reading the documents, catching the discrepancies, and asking the police department to explain itself. Thank you, 404. Subscribe…