New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she wants police to have access to facial recognition systems, one year after a ban was implemented.

After launching a new tax platform, Portland officials said they immediately heard from neighboring agencies who wanted to use it, too.

Portland Smart City Coordinator Christine Kendrick said what's needed most now isn't more sensors or data, but "action" from local authorities.

Portland has become the first to ban all both public and private sector organizations from using facial recognition systems within city limits.

A group of telecommunications companies and the nonprofit U.S. Ignite want city governments to look beyond open data and begin using what they call a "data-sharing exchange."

Officials have long complained of companies that offer products in search of a problem. New procurement strategies are cropping up as a result.

A mercurial landscape of transportation options is challenging cities in way that urban transportation officials say they can't build their way out of.

“We need every single mayor who cares about this issue — local control of local assets — to sign on with this," Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said.

The additional technology arrives as city council prepares to vote on the Smart Cities PDX initiative.