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The problem with AI is that it can make mistakes. This case is one of those mistakes, and it was very bad.

A Tennessee grandmother spent six months in jail after a facial recognition software connected her to bank fraud. It turns out, though, she had nothing to do with it. The AI got it wrong, and now the innocent grandma is trying to rebuild her life after a constructed "intelligence" was not so intelligent.

According to The Guardian:

Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to south-east North Dakota news outlet InForum. Lipps told the outlet she had never been to North Dakota and did not commit the crimes.

Lipps, a mother of three and grandmother of five, said she has lived most of her life in north-central Tennessee. She had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges.

In July, US marshals arrested Lipps at her Tennessee home while she was babysitting four children. She said she was taken away at gunpoint and booked into a county jail as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota.

The woman claims she has never even visited the state, nor does she know anyone who lives there.

According to Fargo police records obtained by WDAY News, detectives investigating bank fraud cases in April and May 2025 reviewed surveillance video of a woman using a fake US army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars.

The officers allegedly used facial recognition software to identify the suspect as Lipps. A detective reportedly wrote in court documents that Lipps appeared to match the suspect based on facial features, body type and hairstyle.

She was released after bank records proved she was over 1,000 miles away from the crime when it occurred. It is unclear why it took months before she was allowed to prove this, but someone needs to be held accountable for this, as she claims the police did not even question her before the arrest.

In America, you are innocent until proven guilty. In this case, however, it appears that the woman was considered guilty until proven innocent. This has no place in America and should never have happened. The resources spent pursuing the woman could never have been wasted if authorities had made a simple phone call. Apparently, though, because an artificially obstructed intelligence played both investigator and judge, this case went on for far too long.

The worst part is that authorities did not even help fund her trip back home. And worse than that, because of this month's long ‘inconvenience,’ she lost her dog, home, and car. And even worse, no one apologized for what they did to this poor woman’s life.

Sometimes mistakes happen. This, however, was not the authorities simply questioning the wrong suspect or detaining her for 24 hours. They kept this woman in jail for months for a crime she never committed, while a simple bank record could have proved her innocence all along.

While I am no legal expert, if what this woman claims to be true is, in fact, true, which, based on the information, it would appear to be, someone must and should be held accountable for the suffering they caused this woman. Unfortunately, though, this is not the first time AI flagged the wrong suspect, and it likely won't be the last.

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