United States, United States
~3,100 US police departments (company estimate)
Clearview AI facial recognition, supplied by Clearview AI
OperationalCivil society reportPAI-D494B30C
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- Body
- ~3,100 US police departments (company estimate)
- Country
- United States
- Area
- United States
- Technology
- Clearview AI facial recognition
- Supplier
- Clearview AI
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- 2020
- Legal basis
- Varies by state; several states and 20+ cities have banned or restricted police facial recognition
- Oversight
- Fragmented. State and city-level restrictions in some jurisdictions, but no single federal framework.
- Evidence
- Civil society report
Report by a human rights or civil liberties organisation - Source
- Company statements; ACLU documentation of wrongful arrest cases; contract reporting
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-D494B30C
Notes
Clearview markets its database of images scraped from the web as an investigative lead generation tool, and states that results are indicative rather than definitive matches requiring further verification. The roughly 3,100 US agency figure originates from the company itself and should be read as a historical vendor estimate, not a verified current count.
A caution on attribution that matters for accuracy: not every US facial recognition wrongful arrest is a Clearview case, and this entry should not absorb them. The documented Clearview-attributed cases are Randal Quran Reid (Georgia, arrested for a Louisiana offence he had no connection to) and a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office case that led to a $200,000 settlement. By contrast, the June 2026 Florida suit filed by the ACLU on behalf of Robert Dillon concerns Pinellas County's FACES system, not Clearview, and the ACLU's April 2026 update identifying a fourteenth publicly known US wrongful arrest does not attribute a vendor in most cases.
Legal position: the Seventh Circuit overturned the class settlement in the Illinois BIPA consumer privacy litigation on 13 July 2026.
Federal contracting continues. ICE Homeland Security Investigations signed a $9.2m contract in September 2025; US Customs and Border Protection signed a one-year $225,000 contract on 11 February 2026 for tactical targeting operations; and the US Army's 1st Special Forces Command has a contract with a base period running March 2026 to March 2027, with options to 2030 and a total potential value of $339,415.