Detroit paying $300,000 to man wrongly accused of theft, making changes in use of facial technology

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Detroit paying $300,000 to man wrongly accused of theft, making changes in use of facial technology
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DETROIT (AP) — The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongly accused of shoplifting and also change how police use facial...

The conditions are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams . His driver's license photo was incorrectly flagged as a likely match to a man seen on security video at a Shinola watch store in 2018.

“They can get a facial recognition lead and then they can go out and do old-fashioned police work and see if there's actually any reason to believe that the person who was identified ... might have committed a crime,” said Phil Mayor, an ACLU attorney. Paulina Gretzky throws husband Dustin Johnson a western-themed 40th birthday bash: A timeline of their relationship

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