JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is facing renewed questions over its use of artificial intelligence facial recognition technology after a second man said the system wrongly identified him as a suspect, leading to three months behind bars. Only on Action News Jax, Jalil Richardson, a Charlotte, North Carolina father of 10, said he was extradited to Jacksonville and spent nearly three months in jail for a car theft investigators later determined he did not commit. >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<< “It’s overwhelming and it’s devastating and it’s outrageous,” Richardson told Action News Jax. According to a Jacksonville police report, investigators used Automated Facial Recognition, or AFR, to compare surveillance footage from a Publix parking lot theft case to Richardson’s photo. Jasmine Jackson, Richardson’s wife, said officers told them the software identified her husband as an “85% match.” “He said, ‘Jalil came back as close as 85% and that’s the reason why he charged Jalil with the crime,’” Jackson said. The investigation began April 2, 2025, when a victim told JSO he unknowingly purchased a stolen car from a man he met at a Publix on Baymeadows Road. Police later showed the victim a photo lineup, where he identified Richardson as the suspect. But timecards later proved Richardson was at work in North Carolina when the alleged crime happened nearly 400 miles away in Jacksonville. “None of the people that she had even came close to looking like my husband,” Jackson said. Richardson said he first learned about the warrant after calling police to his home in Charlotte for an unrelated disturbance. “When they arrived, they informed me they had a warrant for me out in Jacksonville and I was incarcerated for 33 days in Mecklenburg County,” Richardson said. “They extradited me to Florida after 33 days