{"id":24073,"date":"2025-09-08T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/?p=838192"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:00:55","slug":"judge-dismisses-lawsuit-against-detroit-officer-in-facial-recognition-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-against-detroit-officer-in-facial-recognition-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Detroit Officer in Facial Recognition Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/img\/social\/opengraph\/ij-social-lawsuits-1200x630.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<ul class=\"nav nav-tabs tabs tabs-entry\">\n<li class=\"active\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/midwest\/2025\/09\/08\/838192.htm\">Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/midwest\/2025\/09\/08\/838192.htm?comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">0 Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"article-content clearfix\">\n<p>A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/detroit-police-facial-recognition-lawsuit-cab0ae44c1671fc30617d301b21b2d13\">wrongful arrest of a pregnant woman<\/a> who was charged in a carjacking partly because of facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n<p>Porcha Woodruff, who was eight months pregnant, spent 10 hours in jail after she was arrested at her suburban Detroit home while getting children ready for school in February 2023. Police admitted she was the wrong suspect, and charges were eventually dropped.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bzn bzn-sized bzn-intext\">\n<ins data-revive-zoneid=\"79\" data-revive-topics=\"lawsuits,legislation\" data-revive-companies data-revive-block=\"1\" data-revive-id=\"36eb7c2bd3daa932a43cc2a8ffbed3a9\"><\/ins> <\/div>\n<p>Detroit has changed how it uses facial recognition technology based on Woodruff\u2019s arrest and another case.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Judith Levy said Woodruff\u2019s arrest and time in jail \u201care troubling for many reasons.\u201d But she dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against the officer who prepared the arrest warrant, saying Woodruff\u2019s lawyer didn\u2019t show that the officer lacked probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was not immediately aware of any \u201cexculpatory evidence\u201d that would have ruled out Woodruff as an accomplice in a carjacking, the judge said in an Aug. 5 decision.<\/p>\n<p>Police put a file photo of Woodruff in a photo lineup after gas station video from the scene was run through facial recognition technology. The carjacking victim picked Woodruff, who was among other women in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Woodruff\u2019s attorney, Ivan Land, said investigators should have kept digging and not relied so much on facial recognition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just shocked by the decision,\u201d Land said of Levy\u2019s ruling, adding that an appeal is planned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bzn bzn-sized bzn-intext-2\">\n<ins data-revive-zoneid=\"162\" data-revive-topics=\"lawsuits,legislation\" data-revive-companies data-revive-block=\"1\" data-revive-id=\"36eb7c2bd3daa932a43cc2a8ffbed3a9\"><\/ins> <\/div>\n<p>Land said Detroit offered to settle Woodruff\u2019s lawsuit before the decision but no agreement was reached. 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