United States, Nationwide
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Facial recognition and data mapping tools for identifying sex trafficking victims
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-F173E3F5
- Body
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- Facial recognition and data mapping tools for identifying sex trafficking victims
- Supplier
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- Not known
- Legal basis
- Not stated in the source
- Oversight
- Not stated in the source
- Evidence
- Official publication
Police force, government department or public body publication - Source
- Office of Management and Budget, 2025 federal AI use case inventory (DOJ-0137)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-F173E3F5
Notes
The Justice Department's 2025 AI use case inventory (entry DOJ-0137, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'Facial Recognition Technology and Data Mapping Tools - 2' as deployed. The entry says the vendor-purchased tool is used to identify sex trafficking victims and gives potential leads through suggested facial matches. It gives an operational date of January 2025 and classes the use as high-impact. No vendor is named.
Other systems used by Federal Bureau of Investigation
| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationFacial recognition search (NGI Interstate Photo System and FACE Services) | United StatesNationwide | — | 2011 | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationClearview AI facial recognition search | United StatesNationwide | Clearview AI | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationAI triage of public tips (TIPS) | United StatesNationwide; National Threat Operations Center, West Virginia (per the FBI chief AI officer) | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationIn-house facial recognition tool for suggested matches | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationLicence plate readers (three inventory entries) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationTranslation, OCR, object detection and alert filtering for open-source and threat intelligence | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationData synthesis, sentiment, filtering and location linking | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationNational Data Exchange entity extraction for lead generation | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationTranscription, translation and summarisation tools (five inventory entries) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational |
Facial recognition and data mapping tools for identifying sex trafficking victims elsewhere in United States
See them in the tracker| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Police Department (Washington, D.C.)Retrospective Facial Recognition | United StatesWashington, D.C. | Clearview AI | 2026 | Operational | |
| Milwaukee Police DepartmentRetrospective Facial Recognition | United StatesWisconsin | — | — | Paused | |
| US Secret ServiceFacial recognition for investigative leads (Office of Investigations) | United StatesNationwide | NEC (algorithm used in DHS OBIM's IDENT system, per the DHS inventory) | — | Operational | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionTraffic Jam (Marinus Analytics) facial recognition and data search for missing and trafficked people | United StatesNationwide | Marinus Analytics | 2025 | Operational | |
| US Marshals ServiceAWS Rekognition duplicate-record check in the Capture System | United StatesNationwide | Amazon Web Services (Rekognition, as named in the inventory) | — | Proposed |