SurveillanceHigh
Louisiana Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Using False Face Match
- Occurred
- Nov 25, 2022
- Published
- Jan 12, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Louisiana police reportedly used a false facial recognition match and secured an arrest warrant for a Black man for thefts he did not commit.
Developers
- Morphotrak
- Clearview AI
Deployers
- Baton Rouge Police Department
Harmed parties
- Randall Reid
- Black people in Louisiana
- Black people
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: False facial recognition match led to wrongful arrest, indicating surveillance system failure with serious civil rights harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8