A Georgia man was jailed for over a week after authorities used botched facial recognition technology to wrongfully arrest him for a crime.
Baton Rouge Police Department detectives issued a warrant for Randal Reid, 28, in July for stealing luxury purses from a Louisiana consignment shop — using images from various mug shots, driver’s licenses and social media, his attorney told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. He was arrested in an Atlanta suburb in November 2022 as he drove to his mother’s home for Thanksgiving dinner.
“They told me I had a warrant out of Jefferson Parish. I said, ‘What is Jefferson Parish? ‘” Reid said. “I have never been to Louisiana a day in my life. Then they told me it was for theft. So not only have I not been to Louisiana, I also don’t steal.”
Reid is one of several Black people who have been arrested because facial recognition technology is “flawed and biased,” according to the ACLU. Research shows the…
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