INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS SECTION BUSINESS MEETING

When:  May 18, 2021 from 05:00 PM to 05:45 PM (ET)
Associated with  Individual Rights Section

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05-03-2021 01:50 PM

BUSINESS MEETING TO BEGIN DISCUSSION OF FACIAL RECOGNITION AND BIOMETRIC DATABASES

An op-ed in Friday’s
Seattle Times begins with information about  three Black men who were wrongfully arrested because facial recognition software matched them to crimes they did not commit.


Robert Julian-Borchak Williams went to jail for 30 hours after Detroit police arrested him in front of his wife and children. Nijeer Parks was jailed in New Jersey for 10 days and spent more than $5,000 in legal fees to defend himself. Michael Oliver lost his job and car while being held in a Detroit jail for three days on a felony larceny charge.


In two of these cases, including the case in New Jersey, arrest warrants were issued solely on the basis of a faulty facial recognition match.


The op-ed was part of a campaign to get King County (Seattle), Washington, to enact the first countywide ban on facial recognition in the country, joining a growing number of cities, including Portland, Boston, San Francisco and Jackson, Mississippi.


A bill imposing a moratorium on the collection of biometric identifiers, including facial recognition, by public entities is pending in the New Jersey legislature.


At the annual meeting of the Individual Rights Section on Tuesday, May 18 from 5 - 5:45p.m., we will be joined by Molly Linhorst, a Justice Catalyst Fellow with ACLU-NJ, to begin a discussion about biometric databases and facial recognition.


Please join us for this important discussion.  


Registration is free and available at: 

https://tcms.njsba.com/personifyebusiness/MeetingsEvents/NJSBAEventsCalendar/MeetingDetails.aspx?ProductId=65742812