{"id":9732,"date":"2026-06-12T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:01:29","slug":"man-sues-florida-cops-over-arrest-spurred-by-93-match-in-facial-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9732","title":{"rendered":"Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by “93% match” in facial recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Jon Brodkin
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\nJune 10, 2026\n<\/div>\n\n

A man suing Florida police alleges that cops relied on a faulty facial recognition match and concealed exculpatory evidence when they arrested him on a charge of attempting to lure a child in August 2024. The plaintiff, Robert Dillon, was arrested after a facial recognition system flagged him as a 93 percent match to a suspect filmed by a McDonald’s surveillance camera.<\/p>\n

“This case is about what happens when police let an error-prone artificial intelligence system stand in for an investigation,” said the lawsuit filed today. “A facial recognition algorithm flagged Robert Dillon as the man who tried to lure or entice a child under twelve years old at a Jacksonville Beach McDonald\u2019s. It was wrong. Mr. Dillon, a fifty-two-year-old resident of Fort Myers, had never set foot in Jacksonville Beach. But rather than test the machine\u2019s answer against the evidence that would have cleared him, the officers built a case to confirm it. Mr. Dillon was arrested and prosecuted for one of the most stigmatizing crimes a person can face.”<\/p>\n

Dillon lives more than 300 miles from Jacksonville Beach, and a police search of a license plate reader database found no evidence he was in the area when the alleged crime was committed, the lawsuit said. Dillon was flagged as the suspect based on a low-quality image, specifically a photo taken of a McDonald’s computer screen that was displaying video surveillance footage, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

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Jon Brodkin • June 10, 2026 A man suing Florida police alleges that cops relied on a faulty facial recognition match and concealed exculpatory evidence when they arrested him on a charge of attempting to lure a child in August 2024. The plaintiff, Robert Dillon, was arrested after a facial recognition system flagged him as<\/p>\n

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