State govt funds research on police facial recognition use, county contracts Clearview

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is setting up a research project and classes to analyze data about how law enforcement agencies across the state use facial recognition with funding from a new grant.

The $327,000 grant reported by local ABC affiliate WMDT is from the Maryland Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention and earmarked for "Facial Recognition and AI Tools in Criminal Justice -- Building Accountability and Trust," UMES Associate Professor Lily Chi-Fang Tsai told Biometric Update …

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