My experience is with a Racino near Cleveland that only has slot machines so maybe it is more low key. At the entrance is a single greeter standing at a small lectern. They don’t have any screens to watch or posters up or anything. Maybe that type of casino is not trying to prevent someone from entering since there are no table games?
Tons of hidden cameras, hidden back rooms full of screens, and much cooperation between casinos.
Also, state of the art facial recognition software. The casino industry has been at the cutting edge of this for years.
It’s difficult to find reliable cites on this. The top dozen or so results are all companies promoting their products. And the casinos themselves have no incentive to publicly detail their capabilities, because that supplies a road map to the cheaters on how to defeat the filters. This isn’t a very good article, but it’s par for the course.
The bottom line is, by the time you get to that greeter, you’ve already walked past a dozen cameras outside, and the casino knows if you’re on the blacklist.
My local racino is at the local horse racing track. Live racing doesn’t happen there all year round, but the slot machines and race book (allowing one to play any track anywhere, as long as it’s running) operate year-round, so there is always someone on the door. Usually, the same people, and as a horseplayer, I’m there often enough that I know them all.
Their job is mainly to check IDs, really. The drinking/gambling age here is 18, and they’re not shy about asking for ID if somebody questionable comes in. This often happens in the fall, when the students return to the college and the university, but I’ve seen it happen at other times of year as well. And if somebody tries to come in who shouldn’t, and raises a stink about it, the door person can summon people who can make them leave.
There are cameras all over the place, of course, monitoring and recording everything that happens. Some are obvious, but I’m sure that some are not so obvious. And as stated above, they are not just inside; they are also outside, overlooking the parking lot. In short, if someone who shouldn’t be there somehow does make it in past the greeter, they’ll soon be spotted on a monitor in the security office, and made to leave.
And even less incentive to reveal how patrons may have defeated casinos’ facial recognition systems.
I recall seeing a documentary years ago on casino design saying that they used natural choke points to herd people into camera views then used distraction techniques to make people look up. The example they gave is having an escalator with an overhead sign at the top of it would be where the facial recognition cameras would be aimed at.
I wonder how they dealt with this issue during Covid.
Hmm. They do have an escalator and stairway to get to the main floor. But you can also walk straight in from the parking garage at the main level.
Maybe we’re overthinking this. It’s a simple little racino in Cleveland, as per the OP. “Facial recognition” technology may belong in a Las Vegas Strip casino, but may be beyond a little racino in Cleveland.
What “certain people” should they keep from entering?
ETA: Nothing to do with discrimination, of course; I’m sure that the OP is talking about people who have caused problems in the past, and are barred from here on. But just to be sure, OP, could you clarify who your “certain people” are?
I’m not the OP, but I assume it’s people who have been caught cheating, suspected of cheating, play just too well for the casino to make money from them, or have links to organized crime. There are services (like Griffin) that publish lists, and casinos talk to each other.
From what I understand, the technology to do this with facial recognition software/cameras is available to even modest casinos.