AI Facial Recognition arrest gone vey wrong.

[Lochloosa]

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This is wrong on so many levels.


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.


Summary
In August 2024, Robert Dillon’s life was irreparably changed when police wrongfully arrested him for a crime he never committed in a city he had never been to. He was falsely accused of trying to lure a child at a fast-food restaurant in Jacksonville Beach, more than 300 miles away from his home, after police ran a grainy image of the suspect through an AI-assisted facial recognition program, which incorrectly identified him as a possible match. Mr. Dillon, a 52-year-old resident of Fort Myers, Florida, is suing the Jacksonville Beach Police Department, as well as the Jacksonville and Pinellas County Sheriff’s Offices and two individual officers, for his wrongful arrest.

Dillon v. City of Jacksonville Beach | American Civil Liberties Union https://share.google/WN1Ui4yxabH8GZhpD

[RainCaster]

1. I hope he wins in a big way

Municipalities need to see how expensive AI can be. Only then will they stop trusting it.

[PatSeg]

2. Agreed

Hit them where it hurts and hopefully they'll eliminate AI technology from their investigations.

[Stargazer99]

3. Any one could see this happening if they thought it out-but profits are more importaant

replace the worker and you will get more of this abuse

[Bluetus]

4. The surveillance state.

See Flock. There are lots of horrible stories of outrageous abuses with their data.

This is not substantially different fron the notorious totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century, except that we now do it with automation.