Nijeer Parks facial recognition wrongful arrest
Nijeer Parks annnounced he would sue Jersey City police department for false arrest, false imprisonment and violation of his civil rights for misidentifying him using facial recognition. Parks, a 33-year-old Black man, had been arrested for purportedly shoplifting from a candy shop in Woodbridge, New Jersey. The real cuplrit had given the police a fake driver's licence with P ark's photograph before absconding , leading to the police issuing a warrant for Parks' arrest. Parks had never been to Woodbridge, had never owned a driver's licence and had a sound alibi . Having feigned an asthma attack during a police interrogation, Parks was arrested, denied bail and held for 10 days. Parks was finally released and the case against him dismissed for lack of evidence. ➕ January 2024 . The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and the ACLU filed an amicus brief in support of Nijeer Parks. Facial recognition system A facial recognition system is a technology potentially capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Clearview AI Developer: Clearview AI Country: USA Sector: Govt - police Purpose: Strengthen law enforcement Technology: Facial recognition Issue: Accountability; Accuracy/reliability; Bias/discrimination; Transparency Legal, regulatory 👩🏼⚖️ Nijer Parks v John E. McCormack et al
- Date it happened
- 2019-01-01
- Organisation involved
- Woodbridge Police Department, New Jersey; Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office
- Product, system or model
- Clearview AI
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