A New Jersey man is suing the the town of Woodbridge and its police department, alleging he was falsely arrested and jailed after since-banned facial recognition technology falsely identified him as the perpetrator of a shoplifting. Nijeer Parks says police arrested him in 2019 for an incident in January of that year, where the perpetrator hit a police car before driving off. This was a surprise to Parks, who does not drive nor have a driver's license. While Parks's defense lawyer originally said that Clearview AI was used in his arrest, he later retracted that claim.