A Tennessee grandmother was wrongly...

Editor's note: ...identified by facial recognition software in a Fargo bank fraud case, arrested at gunpoint, and jailed for nearly six months even though she had never been to North Dakota. She lost her home, car, and possessions before the charges were dismissed, and she is now suing the city for $10 million. There have been similar wrongful arrests, with law enforcement treating AI matches as proof of guilt instead of just investigative leads, undermining due process and expanding surveillance risks for innocent people. That's it? $10 million? Angela Lipps needs to update her lawsuit and include the US Marshals Service for another $5 million. This isn't isolated to law enforcement either. Wait until the military starts making catastrophic targeting mistakes with AI.
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Tennessee grandma jailed for 5 months after AI flagged her for bank fraud in state she never visited

By Caitlin McCormack | March 29, 2026

A Tennessee grandmother was jailed for a whopping five months after a facial recognition program erroneously flagged her for bank fraud in a state she’d never visited.

Angela Lipps, 50, was first arrested at her rental home in Tennessee in July. Lipps was extradited to Fargo, North Dakota — more than 1,000 miles away from her home — at the end of October, according to a GoFundMe campaign.

The West Fargo Police Department had used "facial recognition technology" that flagged Lipps as a potential suspect in a local fraud case, Dave Zibolski, the Fargo Police Department's chief, told CNN. From there, his department took "additional investigative steps independent of AI to assist in identification" and confirm Lipps as a suspect.

He admitted at a press conference Tuesday that the West Fargo police's system was "part of the issue" in Lipps' wrongful arrest.

The West Fargo Police Department told CNN that they use Clearview AI, which "identified a potential suspect with similar features to Angela Lipps."

Lipps was also detained in Tennessee for three months because the Cass County Sheriff’s Office apparently neglected to tell North Dakota authorities that they had her extradition waiver, the outlet reported.

Lipps said that her relocation to North Dakota was "the first time I had ever been on an airplane." She added it was the first, and last, time she will ever step foot in the Peace Garden State.

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