Facial Recognition in use by Boca Raton Police

Facial Recognition in use by Boca Raton Police
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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City	Boca Raton (FL)
Country	USA
Involved Entities	FBI, Fort Lauderdale Police Department, Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office
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Technology Deployed	FACES (FBI) Software
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1
Datasets Used	FACES (FBI) Dataset
Deployment Type	Criminal investigations, Surveillance
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managed by	Boco Raton Police Department
used by	Boco Raton Police Department
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Criminal investigations, Surveillance

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	FACES (FBI) Software
Institutions ⠉	FBI
Datasets	FACES (FBI) Dataset
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events
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Involved Entities	FBI Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Fort Lauderdale Police Department
Managed by	Boco Raton Police Department
Used by	Boco Raton Police Department

Location:

City	Boca Raton (FL)
Country ⠉	USA

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Description

Boco Raton Police Department is strengthening its use of facial recognition technology in 2022. Prior to this, facial recognition was in use by the department, and they were found to have run searches on protestors in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

The city of Boca Raton is letting its police force participate in a statewide facial recognition program, joining hundreds of communities in Florida employing the controversial crime-fighting technology. The City Council has unanimously approved the partnership with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, which, according to data from the FBI, maintains a database that draws from over 38 million photos of driver’s license photos, mugshots and images taken by or provided to law enforcement from security footage 1

The City Council has unanimously approved the partnership with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, which, according to data from the FBI, maintains a database that draws from over 38 million photos of driver’s license photos, mugshots and images taken by or provided to law enforcement from security footage 1

Boca Raton police and at least two other agencies — the Broward Sheriff’s Office and Fort Lauderdale police department — had submitted more than a dozen images that referenced protests or protesters for facial recognition, but no crimes, according to a June 2021 report from the Sun Sentinel. At the time, Boca Raton police said they were responding to social media posts, which police said called for rioting or looting at the Town Center Mall. The protests in Boca turned out peaceful, but police said they didn’t get any leads from running the social media photos through the database. “From our research, it doesn’t appear there were any matches,” Jessica Desir, Boca Raton police spokesperson, said last year 1

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