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Local law enforcement agencies have been receiving donations of sweets from individuals and groups looking to show support for them. The recent donation to the Renville County Sheriff's Office was a sweet gift in a different way — more than 300 bushels of soybeans worth more than $5,000.
An investigation revealed that more than 40 law enforcement agencies in Minnesota used facial recognition tech from Clearview AI. Experts have raised questions about the legality and reliability of this tech.
Clearview AI Yields Few Results for Minnesota Police At least 42 law enforcement agencies across the state used the facial recognition software but many are discontinuing the service after zero percent of the software’s searches led to an arrest. May 26, 2021 • Buzzfeed investigation. Clearview AI is a web-based platform that allows users to submit pictures for possible matches in a database of more than 3 billion images pulled from open source websites, including news sites and social media, according to the company's web page. The company also boasted of a 100 percent accuracy rate a...
“How we, as law enforcement officers, treat people in rural Minnesota matters because we will undoubtedly run into them again,” Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable told lawmakers.
For Renville County, the past year was a relatively calm one in terms of the need for services from the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office. An annual report from the office shows that it was called to review 115 deaths and perform nine autopsies.