The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is facing renewed questions over its use of artificial intelligence facial recognition technology after a second man said the system wrongly identified him as a suspect, leading to three months behind bars.
Only on Action News Jax, Jalil Richardson, a Charlotte, North Carolina father of 10, said he was extradited to Jacksonville and spent nearly three months in jail for a car theft investigators later determined he did not commit.
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<
“It’s overwhelming and it’s devastating and it’s outrageous,” Richardson told Action News Jax.
According to a Jacksonville police report, investigators used Automated Facial Recognition, or AFR, to compare surveillance footage from a Publix parking lot theft case to Richardson’s photo…