Incident 515: Facial Recognition Error Reportedly Leads to Wrongful Arrest of Georgia Man and $200K Settlement in Louisiana

Description: In November 2022, Randal "Quran" Reid was arrested in Georgia based on warrants from Louisiana that reportedly stemmed from a purportedly faulty facial recognition match using Clearview AI. Despite reportedly having never visited Louisiana, Reid was jailed for six days before authorities withdrew the warrants. No corroborating evidence had been gathered, and the technology's use was omitted from legal documents. In May 2025, Jefferson Parish settled with Reid for $200,000 in a federal civil rights lawsuit.
Editor Notes: See Incident 815 for a wider investigation.

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Alleged: Clearview AI developed an AI system deployed by Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, which harmed Randal Quran Reid.
Alleged implicated AI system: Clearview AI

Incident Stats

Incident ID
515
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-11-25
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

1.1. Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation

Risk Domain

  1. Discrimination and Toxicity

Entity

AI

Timing

Post-deployment

Intent

Unintentional

‘Thousands of Dollars for Something I Didn’t Do’
nytimes.com · 2023

On the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving, Randal Quran Reid was driving his white Jeep to his mother’s home outside Atlanta when he was pulled over on a busy highway. A police officer approached his vehicle and asked for his driver’s lice…

United States: an African-American wrongly accused of theft because of an artificial intelligence
tf1info.fr · 2023
AI Translated

Arrested on November 25, while driving in the suburbs of Atlanta (Georgia), Randal Reid probably did not anticipate the turn this case was going to take. And for good reason, this 29-year-old African American was arrested and then provision…

Wrongful arrest in US linked to facial recognition error leads to $200K settlement
biometricupdate.com · 2025

Jefferson Parish Louisiana Sheriff Joe Lopinto's office has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a Georgia man who was wrongly jailed for nearly a week after being misidentified by facial recognition te…

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