JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s overwhelming and it\u2019s devastating and it\u2019s outrageous,\u201d Richardson told Action News Jax.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s photo.<\/p>\n Jasmine Jackson, Richardson\u2019s wife, said officers told them the software identified her husband as an \u201c85% match.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe said, \u2018Jalil came back as close as 85% and that\u2019s the reason why he charged Jalil with the crime,\u2019\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n But timecards later proved Richardson was at work in North Carolina when the alleged crime happened nearly 400 miles away in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n \u201cNone of the people that she had even came close to looking like my husband,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n Richardson said he first learned about the warrant after calling police to his home in Charlotte for an unrelated disturbance.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen they arrived, they informed me they had a warrant for me out in Jacksonville and I was incarcerated for 33 days in Mecklenburg County,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey extradited me to Florida after 33 days in Mecklenburg County and then I spent the rest of the month in Jacksonville, which was another 50 days,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Court records show prosecutors dropped the case Wednesday.<\/p>\n Charges were dismissed, including dealing in stolen property, grand theft, unlawful possession of motor vehicle with vehicle identification number removed, possession of fraudulent title, and fraudulent use of fictitious personal identification information.<\/p>\n Criminal defense attorney Michelle Suskauer, who is not involved in the case, said the technology can create serious risks when paired with poor-quality surveillance images.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are so many levels of error here,\u201d Suskauer said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty terrifying when someone\u2019s life can be ruined as a result of the technology used in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n Action News Jax first reported concerns surrounding JSO\u2019s facial recognition technology in July 2025 after a Lee County man was wrongfully arrested in a separate case<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n In that investigation, Jacksonville Beach police worked with JSO and identified Robert Dillon as a 93% match to a suspect accused of attempting to lure a 12-year-old child in Jacksonville Beach in 2023. That case was ultimately dropped.<\/p>\n Now, Richardson\u2019s family said the fallout from his arrest has devastated their lives.<\/p>\n \u201cThe case is just dismissed, but we\u2019re homeless,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cHe\u2019s lost his job. He has health issues. Our kids are scattered in different houses. We lost our car. We lost everything because my husband lost his income.\u201d<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax asked both JSO and the State Attorney\u2019s Office whether there have been other cases dismissed because of inaccurate facial recognition matches and what percentage threshold investigators use to determine a reliable match.<\/p>\n JSO said it is working to answer those questions. Action News Jax is still waiting to hear back from the State Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n For now, the family said they are staying with friends while trying to rebuild their lives.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is facing renewed questions over its use of artificial intelligence facial…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":831066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[138646,15619,13030,5229,340988,12883,13816,15654,12187,30183,3188,723,340993,11561,7310,12872,340985,340986,340990,340989,340987,320829,8423,425,340991,50,30193,340994,68315,13388,340992,26770,57513,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,53512,213466],"class_list":["post-831065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-_florida","tag-action_news_jack","tag-action_news_jacks","tag-america","tag-bay_meadows_road","tag-beach","tag-ben_becker","tag-charlotte","tag-duval_county","tag-dylan","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-fort_myers_beach","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville_beach","tag-jahlial_richardson","tag-jaliil_richardson","tag-jalil","tag-jalil_richardson","tag-jasmine_jackson","tag-jonah_gavino","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-mecklenburg_county","tag-news","tag-north_carolina","tag-pd","tag-publix","tag-richardson","tag-robert_dillon","tag-taneka_hughes","tag-tanika","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-yona_govino","tag-yonah"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}