Amazon Rekognition used by Washington County Sherrif's Office, OR

Amazon Rekognition used by Washington County Sherrif's Office, OR
Excluded from graph
Deployment Status	Concluded
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (2 January 2017, Speculative, , No description) uses Record type Property:Has event End (10 June 2020, Speculative, , No description)
City	Hillsboro
Country	USA
Involved Entities
Keywords
Technology Deployed	Amazon Rekognition (Software)
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2
Datasets Used	Amazon Rekognition (Dataset), Unknown Dataset 0060
Deployment Type	Surveillance
runs search software
managed by	Washington County Sherrif's Office
used by	Washington County Sherrif's Office
Potentially used by
Information Certainty	0
Summary	0

Graph View ↗︎

Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

Summary
0

• Details

Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Amazon Rekognition (Software)
Institutions ⠉	Amazon
Datasets	Amazon Rekognition (Dataset) Unknown Dataset 0060
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Concluded
Events	Start (2 January 2017, Speculative, , No description) End (10 June 2020, Speculative, , No description)
Start Date
End Date

Users:

Involved Entities
Managed by	Washington County Sherrif's Office, OR
Used by	Washington County Sherrif's Office, OR

Location:

City	Hillsboro OR
Country ⠉	USA

Loading map...

{"format":"leaflet","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"limit":50,"offset":0,"link":"all","sort":[""],"order":[],"headers":"show","mainlabel":"","intro":"","outro":"","searchlabel":"... further results","default":"","import-annotation":false,"width":"auto","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":5,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":false,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","showtitle":true,"hidenamespace":false,"template":"","userparam":"","activeicon":"","pagelabel":false,"ajaxcoordproperty":"","ajaxquery":"","locations":[{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/wiki/index.php/Amazon_Rekognition_used_by_Washington_County_Sherrif%27s_Office,_OR\" title=\"Amazon Rekognition used by Washington County Sherrif\u0026#039;s Office, OR\"\u003EAmazon Rekognition used by Washington County Sherrif's Office, OR\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E","title":"Amazon Rekognition used by Washington County Sherrif's Office, OR","link":"","lat":45.52289,"lon":-122.98983,"icon":""}],"imageLayers":[]}

Description

Washington County Sherrif's Office used Amazon Rekognition. In June 2020 they stated they would no longer use them.

The documents we obtained indicate that the Washington County sheriff and the city of Orlando became Rekognition customers in 2017. Washington County has since built a database of at least 300,000 mugshot photos to use in coordination with Rekognition. It also built a mobile app for its deputies to quickly scan for a match against the county’s database by submitting images obtained from surveillance or other sources. Amazon is providing company resources to help government agencies deploy Rekognition. In emails between Amazon and Washington County employees, the company offers the expertise of the Rekognition product team, troubleshoots problems encountered by the county, and provides “best practices” advice on how to deploy the service 1

In response to concerns from our community, and our technology provider Amazon, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office is ending its facial recognition program. The program was piloted in 2017 and has been used to assist investigators in identifying suspects in criminal cases. While our groundbreaking policy offered a responsible and ethical model for use of the new technology across the country, it remains unregulated at a state and federal level. In addition, the Sheriff’s Office recognizes that our communities of color have expressed concerns over possible bias by the technology and we want to be sensitive to those feelings. While we could solicit another facial recognition provider, we concluded discontinuing the program best matches community values 2

This page uses the following references:

• Security_Vision_Wiki_References#_SCITE7a1e2d150315ed3f14a5057d3d3ef20a