Black men jailed, wrongfully accused, and arrested, and one technology at the center of it all | ANF Investigates

Behind the Investigation with Atlanta News First

Police use facial recognition to link people to crimes they did not commit. Atlanta News First exposes case from Atlanta, Balitmore, New York, to Louisiana. A common denominator is that law enforcement agencies are not following policy because the policy does not exist.

Randall Reid was arrested in Atlanta for a robbery which occurred in a city he never visited. Before his case, it happened to two other fathers in the southeast. Today, the list grows. As it turns out, bias can be embedded in facial recognition software. Which means in the search for suspects, there's a list of new victims.

While more and more police agencies are beginning to use the technology, other state agencies are following their lead. The Georgia Department of Driver Services now use the system, too. It raises questions about privacy and state law.

Read our full series here: https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/news/investigate/false-recognition/