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NOPD Flew 273 Drone Flights in Three Months. It Can’t Say Why for 206 of Them!
Through a public records request, I obtained the New Orleans Police Department’s drone flight logs covering January 1 through April 1, 2026. These are the department’s own records, exported from its Skydio flight management system. What they show is a surveillance program operating largely outside its own rules — and an oversight process that declined…
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Letter to Senators Opposing the KIDS Act
Dear Senator Cassidy and Senator Kennedy, I am a constituent in New Orleans and a cybersecurity engineer with 20 years in the field. Senator Cassidy, I know you co-sponsored KOSA and co-authored COPPA 2.0, and that your goal is protecting children. I am writing to ask you to reconsider the KIDS Act (H.R.7757) as passed…
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NOPD is Still Using FRT, Still Lying, and Now Covering It Up — Part 5
Welcome back to part 5 of NOPD’s coverup of unlawful use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). Today we’re looking at my allegation that SPO Levi Atkins requested the use of FRT from Project NOLA on March 22, 2025. NOPD Public Integrity Bureau (PIB) conducted a thorough investigation and determined that SPO Atkin did NOT request…
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Interested in What NOPD’s AI Powered Drone Did in 2025?
I’m finally getting the chance to work through some new documents. One of the interesting hits was was 26-4840. This document is all flight logs for the new NOPD SkyDIO AI Drone. If you’re curious how NOPD is spending your tax dollars to spy on you, here are the logs for all of 2025!
