Like other Florida departments, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is wired into FACESNXT, a face biometric reference database maintained by Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and using algorithms from Idemia.
It is one of the longest-running facial recognition systems used in American law enforcement.
When considering the risks that errors in facial recognition technology might lead to wrongful arrests, the worry is typically that police departments deploying the tech could trigger false matches against police databases.
Jacksonville SO has been here before Police departments across the states have extolled the value of facial recognition technology as a crime fighting tool.
That’s why probable cause exists, and (once more for posterity) probable cause cannot come from facial recognition alone.