SurveillanceHigh
Cross-Jurisdictional Facial Recognition Misidentification by NYPD Leads to Wrongful Arrest and Four-Year Jail Time in New Jersey
- Occurred
- Nov 29, 2019
- Published
- Aug 21, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In 2019, facial recognition technology misidentified Francisco Arteaga as a suspect in an armed robbery in New Jersey. The incident led to nearly four years of pretrial incarceration. Despite having an alibi, Arteaga was charged based on the flawed identification. The legal battle that followed resulted in a court ruling requiring police to reveal details about the algorithms used in facial recognition. The process exposed significant gaps in transparency and accountability.
Developers
- Clearview AI
- Facial recognition system developers
Deployers
- West New York PD
- Real Time Crime Center
- NYPD
- Law enforcement
- Facial recognition system deployers
Harmed parties
- Francisco Arteaga
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition misidentification caused wrongful arrest and four years of incarceration, involving surveillance tech and significant harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8