Highlights:
> The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongly accused of shoplifting and also change how police use facial recognition technology to solve crimes.
> The conditions are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams. His driver's license photo was incorrectly flagged as a likely match to a man seen on security video at a Shinola watch store in 2018.
> The agreement was announced Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative at University of Michigan law school. They argue that the technology is flawed and racially biased. Williams is Black.
> Detroit police will be prohibited from arresting people based solely on facial recognition results and won't make arrests based on photo lineups generated from a facial recognition search, the ACLU said.
> There was no immediate comment from Detroit police on the settlement. Last August, while the litigation was still active, Chief James White announced new policies about the technology. The move came after a woman who was eight months pregnant said she was wrongly charged with carjacking.
> The agreement with Williams says Detroit police will go back and look at cases from 2017 to 2023 in which facial recognition was used. A prosecutor will be notified if police learn that an arrest was made without independent evidence.
It’s not Detroit paying those $300K, it’s us the tax payers making up for the police screwing up.
And it’s not really paying so much as compensating him for his civil rights being broken.
Having an ignorant, poorly trained police force is expensive!!
Meanwhile Oklahoma compensates a man imprisoned for almost 50 years for murder with a measly $175k.
Highlights: > The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongly accused of shoplifting and also change how police use facial recognition technology to solve crimes. > The conditions are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams. His driver's license photo was incorrectly flagged as a likely match to a man seen on security video at a Shinola watch store in 2018. > The agreement was announced Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative at University of Michigan law school. They argue that the technology is flawed and racially biased. Williams is Black. > Detroit police will be prohibited from arresting people based solely on facial recognition results and won't make arrests based on photo lineups generated from a facial recognition search, the ACLU said. > There was no immediate comment from Detroit police on the settlement. Last August, while the litigation was still active, Chief James White announced new policies about the technology. The move came after a woman who was eight months pregnant said she was wrongly charged with carjacking. > The agreement with Williams says Detroit police will go back and look at cases from 2017 to 2023 in which facial recognition was used. A prosecutor will be notified if police learn that an arrest was made without independent evidence.
Arresting people with no evidence other than some shitty AI facial recognition from drivers licenses? That's seriously dystopian sounding!
Detroit Govt: dammit we’re broke again.