More than a Dozen Wrongful Arrests Due to Police Reliance on Facial Recognition Technology When police arrested Kimberlee Williams, a grandmother living in Oklahoma, because of a warrant from Maryland, she was shocked. She had never been to Maryland in her life. Ms. Williams later learned that Maryland police had relied on an incorrect result from facial recognition technology that falsely flagged her as a suspect. She is the fourteenth person in the U.S. to join a growing list of people wrongfully arrested because police let flawed facial recognition technology taint their investigations. Police use of facial recognition technology is dangerous, and stories of people wrongfully arrested because of police reliance on incorrect facial recognition results continue to surface. Today, the ACLU and ACLU of Maryland sent letters to three Maryland police departments on behalf of Ms. Williams, who was wrongfully arrested and jailed for six months because Maryland police relied on a false facial recognition result and concealed their reliance on that unreliable technology from the court when applying for an arrest warrant. One Woman Arrested for a Crime She Didn't Commit On June 23, 2021, Ms. Williams was accompanying one of her daughters on a DoorDash delivery to a local military base in Lawton, Oklahoma. When base security at the entry checkpoint conducted a standard identification check, they discovered outstanding Maryland arrest warrants for Ms. Williams and detained her. These warrants sought Ms. Williams’ arrest for a series of fraudulent over-the-counter cash withdrawals in Maryland in December 2019 and January 2020. An unknown individual had entered SunTrust and Truist bank branches in three different counties, impersonated account holders, and fraudulently withdrew thousands of dollars from those individuals’ accounts. Ms. Williams, however, was nowhere near Maryland during this time. She was a resident of Oklahoma, living with two of