A Fort Myers man and the ACLU of Florida are suing Jacksonville Beach for relying too heavily on an artificial intelligence program that fingered him as a suspect in a now-dropped 2023 child luring investigation.
The ACLU said in a 66-page federal lawsuit that Robert Dillon had been arrested “for a crime he never committed in a city he’d never been to.”
Dillon filed suit against the Jacksonville Beach Police Department and the Jacksonville and Pinellas sheriff’s offices Wednesday in a case centering around what the ACLU calls a “faulty facial recognition match” in 2023 and an arrest eight months later…