The ACLU filed a civil rights lawsuit on June 10, 2026 on behalf of a Fort Myers commercial crabber who was wrongfully arrested for allegedly attempting to lure a child at a Jacksonville Beach restaurant he had never visited. Police had obtained the arrest warrant based on an AI-assisted facial recognition match from a county sheriff’s office statewide system, combined with a witness lineup, while ignoring exculpatory evidence such as license-plate reader data showing no hits near the crime scene. Charges were later dropped and his record expunged, but he lost income and went into debt; he is one of at least 15 known Americans wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition errors.