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Predictive Policing Program by Florida Sheriff’s Office Allegedly Violated Residents’ Rights and Targeted Children of Vulnerable Groups

Occurred
Sep 1, 2015
Published
Dec 24, 2020
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

The Intelligence-Led Policing model rolled out by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office was allegedly developed based on flawed science and biased data that also contained sensitive information and irrelevant attributes about students, which critics said to be discriminatory.

Developers

  • Unknown

Deployers

  • Pasco Sheriff's Office

Harmed parties

  • Students
  • Pasco students with disabilities
  • Pasco residents
  • Pasco Black students
  • Educational communities

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%

Rationale: Predictive policing program involves mass monitoring and targeting of specific groups, raising surveillance and bias concerns.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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