State officials currently use facial-recognition software that pulls photos from open sources like news stories and public social-media accounts.

A small group of people gathered at Citi Field to protest the use of facial recognition in some ticketing.

Here's how it works. A face shot is submitted to a facial recognition system, which measures distinctive characteristics such as the width of nose and depth of eye sockets.

Trevis Williams is eight inches taller than a man accused of flashing a woman in Union Square in February. The police ...

Most departmental searches are done via the Northeast Ohio Regional Fusion Center, an interagency intelligence group. The center’s policy on facial recognition, is one of just a few in the area.