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Jason Killinger was arrested after such a match, and he produced a Real ID-compliant driver's license showing he was not the banned person. The arresting officer rejected that evidence over a height difference of a couple of inches. A lawsuit filed earlier this year alleges a lack of training may have led to many unlawful arrests, and the Innocence Project and ACLU have joined in support. The city has asked for more time to review an amicus brief, and a discovery ruling is scheduled for October 14. These are allegations in pending litigation, not established findings.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"major","severity_because":"Test: many third parties (a stated count of two or more affected parties). Fact: the sources state alleged arrests of hundreds of people each year, though these are allegations in litigation.","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.biometricupdate.com/202609/civil-liberties-groups-join-lawsuit-over-reno-pd-reliance-on-third-party-lfr-match","publisher":"Biometric Update","date":"2026-09-24","type":"press","title":"Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match - Biometric Update","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"independent"}],"per_field_confidence":{"context.country":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"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":{"context.country":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Two prominent civil liberties groups have joined a lawsuit against police in Reno, Nevada based on the alleged arrests of hundreds of people each year stemming from a live facial recognition (LFR) system operated by a private entity."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The lawsuit filed earlier this year alleges a lack of training in facial recognition use by Reno police may have led to thousands of unlawful arrests."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Two prominent civil liberties groups have joined a lawsuit against police in Reno, Nevada based on the alleged arrests of hundreds of people each year stemming from a live facial recognition (LFR) system operated by a private entity."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Two prominent civil liberties groups have joined a lawsuit against police in Reno, Nevada based on the alleged arrests of hundreds of people each year stemming from a live facial recognition (LFR) system operated by a private entity."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Two prominent civil liberties groups have joined a lawsuit against police in Reno, Nevada based on the alleged arrests of hundreds of people each year stemming from a live facial recognition (LFR) system operated by a private entity."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The suspect produced a Real ID-compliant driver’s license to prove he was not the individual banned from the casino, and therefore was not trespassing."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The arresting officer rejected this evidence because he found Killinger’s height to differ from that listed on the driver’s license by a couple of inches."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The lawsuit filed earlier this year alleges a lack of training in facial recognition use by Reno police may have led to thousands of unlawful arrests."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The City of Reno has asked for more time to review the amicus brief due its length."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Magistrate Judge Craig Denney is scheduled to rule on disputes over discovery on October 14."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources do not state the arrest date, the disclosure date, or the detection method; 2026-09-24 is the article date, not a disclosure date. No developer or vendor of the facial recognition system is named, and the source does not say whether an AI agent was involved, so event.agent_involved and failure fields are omitted. Root cause and trigger are not stated; the training lack is only alleged in a lawsuit and is not treated as established. Intended use and harm_class are omitted as not clearly stated. The severity tier major is my judgement based on the stated count of hundreds of arrests per year, which is alleged and not verified. No remediation is reported. Figures such as nearly 1,000 persons per year come from plaintiffs' filings and are not recorded as impact values. 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