Even though a man was reportedly working in North Carolina when a vehicle was stolen in Jacksonville, Florida, an AI-assisted facial recognition match still helped put him in jail for more than 50 days.
What happened?
Action News Jax reported that Jalil Richardson was arrested after Jacksonville police analyzed surveillance footage from a private business with a facial recognition system using AI.
Investigators said the software flagged Richardson as an 85% match, and they combined that result with two eyewitness accounts to establish probable cause. But Action News Jax reported that Richardson had been clocked in at his North Carolina job when the theft took place.
Richardson spent nearly two months in jail before his lawyers were able to prove his alibi in court, after which prosecutors dropped the case. He told Action News Jax: “There was no proper investigation done to even reach out to me or to see if I was even in Florida … And I sat in there for over 50 days in the most worst jail ever.”…