Woman Claims Faulty Facial Recognition Software Led to Her Arrest and 5 Months in Jail

Fargo, North Dakota, authorities have not yet cleared the Tennessee woman as a suspect in the bank fraud case.

Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski said detectives are still investigating the bank fraud case. Fargo Police Department

Sympathy and some cash were raised March 16 for a 50-year-old woman who spent five months in jail after she said she was wrongly accused in a bank fraud case by police who identified her as a suspect using facial recognition software.

Meanwhile, local authorities say the investigation of Angela Lipps of Elizabethton, Tennessee, isn’t over.