Two years after Los Angeles police leaders set tougher limits on the LAPD's use of facial recognition, a follow-up report said that the department still lacks a system for tracking when the technology misidentifies someone.
technology, a follow-up report found the department lacks a way to track its outcomes or effectiveness.
The report also found that the department had no way of determining whether officers follow a state law and an internal policy that prohibit using photos taken from an officer’s phone or cameras worn by an officer or mounted in a police vehicle in facial recognition programs. “We believe there needs to be an accounting of when that happens because it has an impact on the person detained,” he told commissioners on Tuesday.
The move came over the protests of privacy watchdogs and civil rights advocates, who had sought an outright ban. They pointed to research that suggests facial recognition technology is unreliable, in particular when trying to match the faces of Black people, exacerbated historical racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
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