Let Facial Recognition Wrongful Arrest Trial Proceed, ACLU Urges

The New Jersey police department a man sued after a faulty facial recognition match led to his wrongful arrest shouldn’t be allowed to avoid a trial in the case, the American Civil Liberties Union told a federal court in a brief Monday.

Woodbridge Police Department officers’ misrepresented the strength of their lead and how the facial-recognition technology works in getting a warrant for Nijeer Parks’ arrest to the court, the national ACLU and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey brief argued in support of the plaintiff. The court should let the case proceed to trial so that Parks ...