A New York state audit found that the school district’s decision to award a contract for a now-illegal facial recognition security system without competitive bidding was legal, despite its lack of transparency.
New York to Bar Facial Recognition Tech in Schools
The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Monica P. Wallace, would require the Lockport City School District to turn off the 300 digital cameras it installed to feed images to facial recognition software in its buildings. by Thomas J. Prohaska, The Buffalo News / December 23, 2020 Shutterstock/Scharfsinn
New York schools is now illegal, after Gov.
Andrew M. Cuomo
signed a temporary ban on their use Tuesday.
The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman
Monica P. Wallace
, D-
Cheektowaga, would require the
Lockport City School District to turn off the 300 digital cameras it installed to feed images to facial recognition software in its buildings.