LAPD officers conduct nearly 30,000 facial-recognition searches
Los Angeles Police Department records showed nearly 30,000 facial-recognition searches since late 2009 and access for 330 officers, contradicting earlier public denials and documenting operational use of systems supplied by several vendors.
TOWARD DOOM38confidence 92/100
Why it moved the index
The records establish sustained, large-scale police use of biometric identification with weak public transparency, creating direct surveillance and civil-liberties harms rather than merely hypothetical misuse. The evidence did not verify an exact deployed model version.
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Assessment history
- R1Toward 38 · confidence 92
New evidence-based September 2020 operational-surveillance disclosure absent from the durable corpus.
11 Aug 2026