Tennessee woman falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota sues for $10m in damages
Angela Lipps, 50, has alleged in suit that Fargo police wrongly relied on AI facial recognition to charge and arrest A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months has sued for $10m in damages, alleging in a federal lawsuit that Fargo police improperly relied on an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to wrongly accuse her.…
Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old Tennessee woman, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Fargo police, alleging that they improperly used an AI facial recognition system to falsely accuse her of bank theft in North Dakota. Lipps was arrested at her home in Tennessee while babysitting her neighbor's children in July 2025 and held in jail for nearly four months without bail while awaiting extradition to North Dakota.
She was ultimately held for an additional two months in North Dakota. The lawsuit claims that the police's reliance on the AI facial recognition system led to her wrongful arrest and prolonged detention.
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