Florida man’s facial recognition match not probable cause for wrongful arrest
A man in Florida was wrongfully arrested last year after a facial recognition system used by the police flagged him…
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Another state lets county police farm out face biometrics matching to others
A county sheriff’s office in the U.S. state of Minnesota is helping other law enforcement agencies in the state with…
Facial recognition moratoriums, bans and un-bans wash across the United States
Unlike most sophomore technologies in the United States, it is getting harder to predict where facial recognition will be in…
Facial recognition issues to be studied by new National Sheriffs’ Association working group
Continuing with its educational program for its members on facial recognition and associated issues it initiated several years ago, the…
Police in Miami, India, Macau expand facial recognition use amid further warnings
The Miami-Dade County Police Department (MDPD), Florida’s largest police force, is seeking to join the many departments in the state…
Second Florida police force seeks real-time facial recognition in apparent reversal
The office of a Florida Sheriff who told a state House Justice Committee that people are not comfortable with real-time…
Florida legislators schooled in biometrics as appeal court rejects other matches as Brady material
An appellate court in Florida has upheld the conviction of a man for selling crack cocaine, ruling that the defendant…
Driver’s license photos increasingly used by U.S. police for identification with facial recognition
Police in Hagerstown, Maryland have arrested a robbery suspect identified by comparing a photo from Instagram to the State’s database…
Florida appeals court to rule on legality of facial recognition procedure in drug case
Florida’s First District Court of Appeals will soon issue the first ruling ever in the U.S. on the legality of…
MorphoTrak provides mobile biometric identification solution to Florida sheriff’s office
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has deployed a MorphoTrak mobile biometric identification solution, allowing police officers to capture…
