False Arrest of Georgia Man Due to Louisiana Police's Faulty Facial Recognition Technology
November 25, 2022
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana relied on facial recognition technology to identify suspects for the alleged theft of luxury purses, resulting in a man in Georgia, Randal Reid, being arrested. However, the technology produced a false match, leading to Reid's arrest and subsequent release. This incident highlights the potential pitfalls of facial recognition technology in law enforcement.
- Alleged deployer
- jefferson-parish-sheriff's-office
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- randal-reid, minorities, black-people
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/598
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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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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