NOPD wants to expand facial recognition tech

📹 NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick asked the City Council this week to loosen restrictions on facial recognition technology.

• Officers used to get real-time updates from a private camera network. She's pitching a city-run option. (The Times-Picayune 🔒)
• Meanwhile, NOPD started a pilot program last month of controversial gunfire-detecting tech in several neighborhoods. (Axios)

🏛️ The Trump administration's move to end Job Corps, the nation's largest job training program for low-income youth, has been blocked — at least for now — by a federal judge. Job Corps has a center in New Orleans. (Axios)

👀 ICE ramped up enforcement efforts last month in the region. The New Orleans field office said it made about 2,000 arrests and about 8,300 deportations. (WWL)

🌀 A tropical depression could form in the Atlantic this weekend. It's no longer a threat to the Gulf. (Latest forecast)

🧨 Two big fireworks shows happen tonight in New Orleans and Metairie. (Full schedule)

• Plus, there's a hot dog eating contest tomorrow at Dat Dog.
• And, you know those Labubu dolls the kids are going crazy over? There's a costume contest Sunday at She Comes in Peace.