Woman Wrongly Jailed for Months Based on Faulty Facial Recognition Technology Demands Apology from Maryland Police Departments MARYLAND — Today, the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Maryland sent letters to three Maryland police departments on behalf of Kimberlee Williams, an Oklahoma woman who was wrongfully arrested because Maryland police relied on an incorrect result from facial recognition technology and concealed their reliance on that unreliable technology from the court when applying for arrest warrants. Ms. Williams is the fourteenth person publicly known to have been wrongfully arrested by U.S. police because of reliance on erroneous facial recognition results. “I lost six months of my life when Maryland police wrongfully imprisoned me halfway across the country from my children, my home, and my job, all because they relied on an incorrect result from faulty technology,” said Kimberlee Williams. “I had never even been to Maryland before I was flown there in handcuffs, for a crime I had nothing to do with. 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.” On June 23, 2021, Ms. Williams was accompanying one of her daughters, a DoorDash driver, as she made a delivery to a local military base in Lawton, Oklahoma. When base security conducted a standard ID check, they discovered an outstanding Maryland arrest warrant for Ms. Williams, detained her, and called local police, who arrested her. Ms. Williams spent 23 days in an Oklahoma jail before a Maryland officer arrived to transport her to a jail in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she was imprisoned for over three months while she fought to show she couldn‘t have committed a crime in