The American Civil Liberties Union has filed complaints against police departments in Montgomery, Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties, claiming a false identification resulting from a facial recognition technology search led an innocent woman to be jailed for six months. Kimberlee Williams, an Oklahoma resident, said she had never been to Maryland before she was arrested on an outstanding warrant from Montgomery County while trying to drop off a food delivery order at a military base. “I was flown there in handcuffs, for a crime I had nothing to do with,” Williams said in an ACLU news release. “My family and I can’t get that time back, but I hope my experience will be a warning to police in Maryland and across the country that this technology can ruin lives. No family deserves to go through that.” The ACLU said Williams is the 14th person it knows of who was wrongfully arrested because of faulty facial recognition technology. Williams’ ordeal began when an investigator working for a bank uploaded an image of a suspect who had withdrawn thousands of dollars by impersonating account holders in Maryland branches. The investigator uploaded the image to a national LISTSERV of police and private investigators called CrimeDex. Someone on the LISTSERV ran the image through facial recognition and sent back Williams’ name and photo as a match. Read More The bank investigator notified a Montgomery County Police Department detective of the match in a memo, citing “facial recognition software,” and the department obtained an arrest warrant “without any independent investigation,” according to the ACLU. But that detective in Montgomery County never disclosed how he had come across Williams’ name, according to the ACLU. Instead, he “misleadingly claimed that Ms. Williams had been ‘identified’ as the suspect and that the detective had confirmed the identification