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Police officer Richard Jager trusted the facial recognition match over Killinger's valid identification and arrested him in September 2023. Killinger was jailed for nearly nine hours and was left with bruising and shoulder pain, according to his lawsuit. A fingerprint check at the Washoe County jail confirmed his identity, and the lawsuit alleges a police report still claimed he had presented conflicting identification. Killinger sued Jager and the City of Reno, and now seeks the identities of 168 others flagged by the same system. Reno provided records with names removed; the city says only 16 of the 168 arrests predate his. 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Arrest records of 168 people cited or transported after facial recognition identifications at Peppermill are involved.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.casino.org/news/wrongly-arrested-peppermill-casino-guest-seeks-names-of-168-others-flagged-by-facial-recognition/","publisher":"Casino.org","date":"2026-08-24","type":"press","title":"Wrongly Arrested Peppermill Casino Guest Seeks Names of 168 Others Flagged by Facial Recognition - Casino.org","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.date_occurred":"C","context.country":"C","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.incident_class":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.date_occurred":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The request forms part of Killinger’s lawsuit against Reno and police officer Richard Jager over his September 2023 arrest."}],"context.country":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A Nevada man wrongly arrested due to a facial recognition error at Reno’s Peppermill Casino is demanding the identities of 168 other individuals flagged by the property’s surveillance system."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In April, Killinger’s lawyers requested arrest records involving the 168 people cited or transported to the Reno Police Department following facial recognition identifications at Peppermill."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In April, Killinger’s lawyers requested arrest records involving the 168 people cited or transported to the Reno Police Department following facial recognition identifications at Peppermill."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Killinger was flagged as a “100% match” for an individual named Michael Ellis, who had been banned from the venue months earlier for sleeping on the premises."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"A Nevada man wrongly arrested due to a facial recognition error at Reno’s Peppermill Casino is demanding the identities of 168 other individuals flagged by the property’s surveillance system."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Jager chose to trust the powers of facial recognition software over material facts—such as that Killinger is four inches taller than his doppelganger and has blue eyes rather than hazel."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Killinger was jailed for nearly nine hours and spent more than three hours in handcuffs, which left him with bruising and shoulder pain, according to the lawsuit."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The lawsuit alleges that even after a fingerprint check at the Washoe County jail confirmed Killinger’s true identity, Jager filed a police report claiming Killinger had presented conflicting identification to Peppermill security."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"After settling out of court with Peppermill, Killinger sued Jager and later added the City of Reno, alleging the city failed to properly train officers on facial recognition and continued pursuing criminal allegations against him even after his true identity had been confirmed."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Meanwhile, only 16 of the 168 arrests occurred before Killinger’s incident, meaning later claims could not establish that Reno had notice of a facial recognition problem at the time of his arrest, according to Herbolsheimer."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The judge has yet to rule on Killinger’s request."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources do not name the facial recognition vendor, model, version, developer or deployment context, so system fields are omitted. Agent involvement is not stated, so event.agent_involved and failure fields are omitted. The sources do not state a root cause; the training failure is only an allegation in the lawsuit. The article date 2026-08-24 is treated as publication, not disclosure, so date_disclosed is omitted. Detection method and responsible party are not stated. Incident class 'other' is my judgement. Country US is inferred from Nevada, Reno and Washoe County. The 168 figure is the number of people whose records were sought; the sources do not state a confirmed number of wrongful arrests. Severity 'moderate' is my judgement under the bounded-scope test. Harm class bodily reflects the stated bruising and shoulder pain. The judge has not ruled, and no remediation is reported. 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