Bloomington settles with man wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition tech

The City of Bloomington, Minnesota, has settled a lawsuit brought by a man who said he was wrongly arrested back in 2021.

Kylese Perryman claims his rights were violated, saying investigators carelessly and incorrectly identified him as the man responsible for a violent felony. He spent five days in jail, 30 days on home monitoring and, after 52 days, charges were eventually dropped

His lawyers say this is a case of an investigator comparing surveillance photos of a suspect in a robbery and carjacking to a booking photo of another man and ultimately arresting the wrong person, ultimately the result of faulty facial recognition technology…

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