Overview

• Detroit will pay $300,000 to Robert Williams, wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition errors.
• New policies prohibit arrests based solely on facial recognition matches or photo lineups from such searches.
• Police must now disclose facial recognition flaws and require independent evidence to corroborate matches.
• An audit will review cases from 2017 to 2023 where facial recognition was used in arrests.
• Officers will receive training on the technology's limitations and its higher misidentification rates for people of color.