Facial recognition helped crack alleged student murder by illegal migrant – new bill could ban it: r

[rangerrebew]

Facial recognition helped crack alleged student murder by illegal migrant – new bill could ban it: ret. cop
Retired Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy says Illinois Biometric Surveillance Act would be 'crippling' for detectives
Adam Sabes By Adam Sabes Fox News
Published March 28, 2026 6:00am EDT
 

New Illinois bill could be 'crippling' for detectives in the state: Fmr Chicago police chief of detectives
Retired Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy told Fox News Digital that a bill banning law enforcement from using biometric identification systems could be "crippling" for detectives.

A former Chicago Police Department chief of detectives says that a bill introduced in the Illinois state house just one day before Sheridan Gorman was killed has the potential to be detrimental to police in the state by banning the use of any biometric identification systems.

Police arrested Jose Medina-Medina, 25, on Friday after he allegedly killed Loyola University Chicago student Gorman, who was 18, early on Thursday morning. Medina-Medina is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who first entered the U.S. in 2023, when he was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and released into the U.S. under the Biden administration.

Medina-Medina allegedly shot and killed Gorman on a pier on Thursday, March 19, at around 1:06 a.m., according to an arrest report.


Democrat Illinois State Rep. Kelly Cassidy introduced a bill that would ban law enforcement from using biometric identification systems, including fingerprint-matching tools, facial recognition programs, iris scanners, as well as any other software that deals with biometric information, according to the bill's text. DNA isn't included in the biometric identifiers in Cassidy's bill.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/facial-recognition-helped-crack-alleged-student-murder-illegal-migrant-new-bill-could-ban-it-ret-cop

[rangerrebew]

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS should just pass a bill giving AUTOMATIC AMNESTY to illegal aliens for ANY CRIME.

[MeganC]

Facial recognition and AI have been used to put innocent people in jail just for looking like someone else. These tools clearly need guardrails to protect the rights of the innocent. One example of success does not excuse multiple examples of failure.

[Smokin Joe]

Facial recognition and AI have been used to put innocent people in jail just for looking like someone else. These tools clearly need guardrails to protect the rights of the innocent. One example of success does not excuse multiple examples of failure.

WHile I agree that matching faces isn't the bees' knees (how many were 'hanged by mistake' in the old west because they looked like someone else?), among the systems they would shut down are "...including fingerprint-matching tools, ...", and those give the capability to screen a lot of innocent people out of the consideration as suspects, rapidly. It was fingerprints that became the biometric gold standard for identifying and excluding suspects before DNA, simply because of uniqueness and unlikely false positives.
No system is foolproof, but discarding every tool in the box because some of them have limitations is folly.