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The Detroit Police Department has agreed to implement new restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology as part of a legal settlement. These new policies prohibit arrests based solely on facial recognition results or photo lineups conducted immediately after such searches. Additional evidence is required to link a suspect to a crime, beyond facial recognition alone. The agreement mandates police training on the risks of facial recognition technology and an audit of all related cases since 2017. This settlement resulted from a lawsuit by Roger Williams, a Black man wrongfully arrested due to faulty facial recognition, who was represented by the ACLU and the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative at the University of Michigan Law School. The ACLU praised the new policies as the nation’s strongest constraints on law enforcement’s use of this technology, highlighting the higher misidentification rates for women and people of color. Williams was compensated $300,000 and aims to continue raising awareness about the dangers of facial recognition. The police department expressed satisfaction with the collaborative efforts and believes the new policy will serve as a national model. This move follows similar bans in cities like San Francisco and by companies such as Microsoft.

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