Charlotte father of 10 says Jacksonville police AI misidentification cost him his freedom, home, job

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.

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“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…

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