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Quran Reid

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 8151 Report
Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

2024-10-06

Police departments across the U.S. have used facial recognition software to identify suspects in criminal investigations, leading to multiple false arrests and wrongful detentions. The software's unreliability, especially in identifying people of color, has resulted in misidentifications that were not disclosed to defendants. In some cases, individuals were unaware that facial recognition played a role in their arrest, violating their legal rights and leading to unjust detentions.

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Incident 8961 Report
Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

2025-01-13

Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have allegedly been misusing AI-powered facial recognition technology, leading to wrongful arrests and significant harm to at least eight individuals. Officers have reportedly been bypassing investigative standards, relying on uncorroborated AI matches to build cases, allegedly resulting in prolonged detentions, reputational damage, and personal trauma.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Police departments

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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Evansville PD

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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Pflugerville PD

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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Miami PD

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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West New York PD

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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NYPD

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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Coral Springs PD

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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Arvada PD

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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Clearview AI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Entity

Francisco Arteaga

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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Entity

Defendants wrongfully accused by facial recognition

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 815
    1 Report

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Software Causes Wrongful Arrests Without Defendant Knowledge

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Florence Kentucky Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Evansville Indiana Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Detroit Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Coral Springs Florida Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Bradenton Florida Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Austin Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Developers of mugshot recognition software

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Developers of law enforcement facial recognition software

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Wrongfully arrested individuals

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Vulnerable communities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Robert Williams

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Porcha Woodruff

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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People of color

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Nijeer Parks

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Jason Vernau

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Christopher Gatlin

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Black people

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Alonzo Sawyer

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Statewide facial recognition systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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St. Louis mugshot recognition technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Michigan state facial recognition system

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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Florida state facial recognition system

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 896
    1 Report

    Alleged Misuse of Facial Recognition Technology by Law Enforcement Reportedly Leading to Wrongful Arrests and Violations of Investigative Standards

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