NYPD's Cross-Jurisdictional Facial Recognition Misidentification: Four Years of Wrongful Jail Time
November 29, 2019
In 2019, a wrongful arrest occurred due to facial recognition technology misidentifying Francisco Arteaga as a suspect in an armed robbery in New Jersey. This incident led to nearly four years of pretrial incarceration. Despite having an alibi, Arteaga was charged based on the flawed identification. The legal battle that followed revealed gaps in transparency and accountability, underscoring the need for responsible AI governance. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape trustworthy AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- west-new-york-pd, nypd, real-time-crime-center
- Alleged developer
- clearview-ai
- Alleged harmed parties
- francisco-arteaga
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/816
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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