Description: A Nebraska man alleges that a Florence, Kentucky, police detective relied solely on an AI facial-recognition match to identify him as a check-fraud suspect. He was arrested in Florida and jailed for more than two weeks before being released. Prosecutors later dismissed the charges after he proved he was working in Nebraska during the alleged offense. A federal judge allowed his civil-rights lawsuit to proceed.
Editor Notes: 08/30/2024: A suspect attempted to cash a suspected fraudulent check at a bank in Florence, Kentucky. 01/09/2025: Officers arrested Alain Vizcay Osorio in Florida following a facial-recognition-based identification allegedly relied on by a Kentucky detective. 01/24/2025: Osorio was released on bond after detention in Kentucky. 05/07/2025: Prosecutors dismissed the indictment with prejudice after Osorio documented working in Nebraska at the time of the alleged offense. 01/08/2026: Osorio filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against Detective Ryan Kilmer. 11/09/2026: The federal court permitted an amended complaint and denied the detective's motion for judgment on the pleadings; no final liability determination was made. 11/12/2026: Incident ID created. See also: Incident 896.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Facial recognition system developers developed an AI system deployed by Ryan Kilmer , Police departments in the United States , Police departments , Law enforcement and Florence Police Department (Kentucky), which harmed Wrongfully arrested individuals , Privacy , People misidentified by facial recognition systems , Epistemic integrity and Alain Vizcay Osorio.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Facial recognition systems and AI-enabled decision support systems
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1816
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2025-01-09
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
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Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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