Angela Lipps was arrested while babysitting and held for five months 2,000 kilometers away from her home.
On July 14th, Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old, was babysitting at her home in Elizabethton, a small town in Tennessee, when police officers burst in with guns drawn. They took this unsuspecting babysitter into custody. She spent over five months in prison after an AI facial recognition program identified her as being involved in a bank fraud case in North Dakota, a state where this grandmother had never set foot.
Initially imprisoned for 108 days in Tennessee, she later found out there was a warrant for her arrest in Fargo, North Dakota, 2,000 kilometers away from her residence. In the spring of 2025, the police had been investigating bank frauds where a woman had withdrawn thousands of dollars from a bank using fake documents. The officers used images from a surveillance video from Clearview AI, a highly sought-after facial recognition software by law enforcement agencies.
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