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AI Laws in Louisiana
As of 2026-08-12, AI Laws USA tracks 10 AI rules in Louisiana: 5 state-level rules and 5 county or city rules. Federal AI protections apply statewide on top of these — see the federal page. Each entry links to its official source.
Louisiana state-level AI rules (5)
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Executive Order JML 25-109: Amended State Government's Use o
Louisiana · Effective 2025-09-29 · Executive Order JML 25-109: Amended State Government's Use of AI
Governor Jeff Landry's amended executive order requires Chief Information Officer or agency-head approval before any state agency uses AI, pauses AI procurement until December 15, 2025, mandates AI acquisition/information-management policies and an inventory of AI contracts and use cases, and restricts sensitive data inputs pending those policies.
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Artificial Intelligence Acceptable Use Policy
Louisiana · Effective 2025-09-29 · Artificial Intelligence Acceptable Use Policy
Louisiana's Office of Technology Services policy governs employee AI use, prohibiting entry of confidential/restricted state data into commercial AI, barring AI from making independent consequential decisions, and requiring human verification, AI-content labeling, and use of only state-approved systems.
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Artificial Intelligence in Louisiana Schools: Guidance for K
Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) · Effective 2024-08-28 · Artificial Intelligence in Louisiana Schools: Guidance for K-12 Schools
Louisiana's education department, acting on its AI Task Force recommendations, released K-12 AI guidance including a four-tier use system (AI-Empowered/Enhanced/Assisted/Prohibited) and a cyclical framework for policy, stakeholders, and monitoring.
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Louisiana AI Intimate-Image Law (R.S. 14:73.14)
Louisiana · Effective 2024-08-01 · La. R.S. 14:73.14 (2024 Reg. Sess. S.B. 6)
Louisiana makes it a crime to distribute or sell AI-generated images or video that show a recognizable real person nude or in a state of undress, when the person doing so acts with intent to coerce, harass, intimidate, or otherwise maliciously and knows or should know they are not authorized to share or sell the material. Online services, email providers, and telecommunications carriers are generally not liable for content their users post. This is a separate offense from Louisiana's broader 'unlawful deepfakes' statute.
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LA Unlawful Deepfakes Law
Louisiana · Effective 2023-08-01 · 2023 La. Acts No. 175; La. R.S. 14:73.13
Louisiana's deepfake law carries some of the harshest penalties in the nation: creating or possessing sexual deepfakes of minors brings 5–20 years at hard labor; distributing them brings 10–30 years and up to $50,000. It also criminalizes nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of adults. Prosecutors have already charged people under it.
County and city AI rules in Louisiana (5)
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Orleans Parish / New Orleans Facial Recognition Restrictions
Orleans Parish County, LA · Effective 2024-07-25 · New Orleans City Council Ordinance (Orleans Parish coterminous) (2024-07-25)
Orleans Parish (coterminous with New Orleans) restricts NOPD's use of facial-recognition technology to investigations of specific violent crimes with supervisory approval, prohibits use as sole basis for arrest, and requires reporting to City Council.
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First data center zoning regulations
St. Charles Parish, LA · Effective 2026-06-02 · First data center zoning regulations
The St. Charles Parish Council unanimously approved the parish's first data center zoning regulations, adding a definition and requiring 300-foot buffers from residential areas, landscape buffers, noise limits and generator-testing restrictions.
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Temporary moratorium on new data centers
New Orleans, LA · Effective 2026-01-28 · Temporary moratorium on new data centers
The New Orleans City Council imposed a temporary moratorium of up to two years on new data centers, server farms and cryptocurrency mining facilities and directed the Planning Commission to draft a data center zoning classification.
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Surveillance Technology and Data Protection ordinance bannin
New Orleans, LA · Effective 2020-12-17 · Surveillance Technology and Data Protection ordinance banning NOPD facial recognition and predictive policing
New Orleans' City Council banned NOPD use of facial recognition, stingrays, and predictive policing in 2020, but the council rolled back the facial recognition ban to permit limited use in 2022.
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New Orleans Surveillance/FR Rules
New Orleans, LA · New Orleans, La., Code ch. 147, as amended July 21, 2022
New Orleans banned facial recognition, predictive policing, and cell-site simulators in December 2020, but the council partially repealed the ban in July 2022, letting police use facial recognition (with human review and reporting) for serious violent crimes. In 2025 it emerged NOPD had received real-time facial recognition alerts from a private camera network in violation of these rules; alerts were paused in April 2025 and a proposal to authorize real-time FR was withdrawn, leaving the 2022 rules in place.
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