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    Despite past denials, LAPD has used facial-recognition software 30,000 times in last decade, records show

    by Kevin Rector and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Sep 21, 2020 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department has used facial-recognition software nearly 30,000 times since 2009, with hundreds of officers running images of suspects from surveillance cameras and other sources against a massive database of mugshots taken by law enforcement.

    The new figures, released to The Times, reveal for the first time how commonly facial recognition is used in the department, which for years has provided vague and contradictory information about how and whether it uses the technology.

    The LAPD has consistently denied having records related to facial recognition, and at times denied using the technology at all.

    The truth is that, while it does not have its own facial-recognition platform, LAPD personnel have access to facial-recognition software through a regional database maintained by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. And between Nov. 6, 2009, and Sept. 11 of this year, LAPD officers used the system's software 29,817 times.

    More than 300 LAPD personnel have access to the software.

    Josh Rubenstein, an LAPD spokesman, said he could not determine how many leads from the system

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