ACLU calls for policy review after Maryland police used faulty facial recognition scan to wrongfully imprison Oklahoma woman for six months The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Maryland on Tuesday sent letters to three law enforcement agencies in Maryland calling for them to publicly apologize to Kimberlee Williams, a white Oklahoma woman who claims she was wrongfully arrested in 2021 after Maryland police relied on an unverified facial recognition scan conducted by an unknown third party to identify her as a criminal suspect. The letters, which are individually addressed to Montgomery County Police Department, the Anne Arundel County Police Department and the Prince George’s County Police Department, claim that Maryland police investigators relied on an incorrect result from facial recognition system to get a warrant for Williams’ arrest. The letters allege that investigators concealed their reliance on the technology from the court when applying for arrest warrants, and that as a result, Williams spent six months in jail for a crime she did not commit, in a state she had never visited. The letters argue that police must stop treating facial recognition as reliable evidence, and adopt stricter safeguards to prevent similar wrongful arrests. According to the ACLU, Williams was arrested while accompanying one of her daughters, a DoorDash driver, as she made a delivery to a military base in Lawton, Oklahoma, on June 23, 2021. When military police conducted a standard ID check at a base checkpoint, they discovered Williams had an outstanding arrest warrant in Maryland. The military police detained her and then called the local police, who arrested her. Williams said she spent 23 days in an Oklahoma jail before an officer from Maryland arrived to transport her to a jail in Montgomery County, Maryland. The letters state that when she arrived in to the