{"id":1552,"date":"2026-06-11T16:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:40:54","slug":"florida-man-sues-police-over-alleged-wrongful-arrest-for-ai-facial-recognition-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"Florida Man Sues Police Over Alleged Wrongful Arrest For AI Facial Recognition Error"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florida man Robert Dillon filed a lawsuit against police for what he believes is a wrongful arrest from an artificial intelligence facial recognition error.<\/p>\n

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In 2023, Dillon \u2014 whose first name has also been reported as Richard \u2014 was arrested for allegedly trying to \u201clure a child\u201d away from a McDonald\u2019s in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, which is hundreds of miles from his home. He has since been cleared but will be a plaintiff in a new American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit against law enforcement, CBS reported.<\/p>\n

Dillon is suing for monetary damages and seeking policy changes to be instituted immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping that the outcome of this is to prevent other people from going through the trauma that I went through,\u201d Dillon said in an interview with CBS.<\/p>\n

The police relied on facial recognition technology to get the arrest warrant, according to a Wednesday press release from the ACLU. Dillon is suing the Jacksonville Beach Police Department, Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

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The Jacksonville Beach Police Department algorithm said it had a 93% probability that Dillon was the man caught on security cameras, according to The Guardian. (RELATED:\u00a0Amazon\u2019s Ring Doorbell Stored Strangers\u2019 Faces, New Lawsuit Claims)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Jacksonville Beach Police Department and the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office were unable to provide comment to the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one should lose their freedom or be scared to leave their house because an algorithm got it wrong,\u201d Nate Freed Wessler, deputy director of the ACLU\u2019s Speech, Privacy, and Technology project, said via the press release.<\/p>\n

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A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology at the Horizon Robotics exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES 2019 in Las Vegas on January 10, 2019. (Photo by DAVID MCNEW\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When Dillon was arrested at his home he pleaded with officers saying they had the wrong suspect. He has maintained that that one officer told him, \u201cIf what you\u2019re telling me is true, you got one hell of a lawsuit,\u201d according to CBS.<\/p>\n

Dillon alleged in the lawsuit that the images used to identity him were \u201cpartially shadowed and off-axis,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

In 2019, San Francisco banned facial recognition technology after civil liberty groups were worried that it would lead to overly oppressive surveillance in the United States.<\/p>\n

Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office operates the facial recognition technology system in Florida, according to the ACLU\u2019s press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlorida\u2019s growing reliance on facial recognition technology threatens us all. We must stop this dangerous pattern before it traps more innocent people. No one should have their freedom taken away because the police rely on faulty technology,\u201d Nicholas Warren, staff attorney at the ACLU of Florida, said in the press release.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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