Because these false arrests have occurred more than a couple of times, the Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Detroit Police Department to terminate the use of “faulty facial recognition technology.”

“It’s deeply concerning that the Detroit Police Department knows the devastating consequences of using flawed facial recognition technology as the basis for someone’s arrest and continues to rely on it anyway,” ACLU of Michigan senior staff attorney Phil Mayor, said in a statement. “As Ms. Woodruff’s horrifying experience illustrates, the Department’s use of this technology must end. Furthermore, the DPD continues to hide its abuses of this technology, forcing people whose rights have been violated to expose its wrongdoing case by case. DPD should not be permitted to avoid transparency and hide its own misconduct from public view at the same time it continues to subject Detroiters to dragnet surveillance.”

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