04-13-2021, 10:11 PM
Lawsuit: Man suffered 'great harm' after wrongful arrest based on Detroit's facial recognition technology
Detroit — Attorneys representing a Farmington Hills man filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking undisclosed damages from the city, its police chief and a Detroit police detective for "the grave harm caused by the misuse of, and reliance upon, facial recognition technology."
The 75-page suit was filed on behalf of Robert Williams in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by the University of Michigan Law Schoolâ€s Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan.
An ACLU press release Tuesday claimed: "Mr. Williams†experience was the first case of wrongful arrest due to facial recognition technology to come to light in the United States."
Williams' case attracted national attention when it was first made public last year, and it's served as a rallying cry for critics of facial recognition technology, who point to studies suggesting the software systems return an inordinate number of false hits against Black people. Williams is Black.
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"I came home from work and was arrested in my driveway in front of my wife and daughters, who watched in tears, because a computer made an error,†Williams said in a written statement. “This never should have happened, and I want to make sure that this painful experience never happens to anyone else.â€
Detroit's Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia said in a statement Tuesday: "The arrest took place before the pandemic, and in the time since, the Detroit Police Department has conducted an internal investigation and has sustained misconduct charges relative to several members of the department.
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...203369002/
Detroit — Attorneys representing a Farmington Hills man filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking undisclosed damages from the city, its police chief and a Detroit police detective for "the grave harm caused by the misuse of, and reliance upon, facial recognition technology."
The 75-page suit was filed on behalf of Robert Williams in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by the University of Michigan Law Schoolâ€s Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan.
An ACLU press release Tuesday claimed: "Mr. Williams†experience was the first case of wrongful arrest due to facial recognition technology to come to light in the United States."
Williams' case attracted national attention when it was first made public last year, and it's served as a rallying cry for critics of facial recognition technology, who point to studies suggesting the software systems return an inordinate number of false hits against Black people. Williams is Black.
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"I came home from work and was arrested in my driveway in front of my wife and daughters, who watched in tears, because a computer made an error,†Williams said in a written statement. “This never should have happened, and I want to make sure that this painful experience never happens to anyone else.â€
Detroit's Corporation Counsel Lawrence Garcia said in a statement Tuesday: "The arrest took place before the pandemic, and in the time since, the Detroit Police Department has conducted an internal investigation and has sustained misconduct charges relative to several members of the department.
More:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...203369002/