SACRAMENTO, California: When two California lawmakers came together Tuesday to champion a bill that would block police departments from using facial recognition technology in their body cameras, it was personal.
After all, both lawmakers – Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, and Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles – were among the 26 state legislators who were falsely identified as criminals when their portraits were compared to a mugshot database.
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